"When the camouflaged and orderly violence of established society is challenged by the crude and unpredictable violence of a forming – but as yet inchoate – countersociety, it is hard for idealists and humanitarians to keep a proper perspective", libcom.org/blog/black-reb…
"One of the factors that induces serious revolutionaries and discouraged ghetto-dwellers to conclude that nonviolence is incapable of being developed into a method adequate to their needs is this very tendency of pacifists to line up, in moments of conflict, with the status quo."
"After all, nonviolence has ground to a halt in the area of black liberation, staggered by the depth of the problem and hesitating at the crossroads where one must move on from protest either to the illusions of liberal politics or to genuine revolution", this is from 1967.
The names of the countries the US has currently invaded may change (Vietnam -> Afghanistan). The alliances with apartheid regimes may have changed (South Africa -> Israel). But the brutality, corruption, and inequality hasn't changed very much at all in 50 years. Powerful essay.
This reminded me of Angela Davis' key premise in Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: That these struggles are interconnected. What's going on in Palestine is connected to what's going on in Hong Kong is connected to what's going on in Minneapolis. indiebound.org/book/978160846…
Again, this original essay was from 1967. See if you can spot any similarities to today's tactics. Warrior cops. Suppression of the press. Making an example. 
From 2001 to 2015, military spending rose 50% in the US. And it's been rising ever since. More weapons, more bombs, more soldiers, longer invasions, continued occupations. American is exceptionally brutal, corrupt, and unjust, but look at them guns! nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/how-…
"The best way to combat violence is to work constructively against the cruelty and violence of the status quo. While remaining nonviolent ourselves, we must recognize and respond to the thrust for dignity of those who strike out.. against the system which oppresses them."
