![]() ![]() Q: There's a concern that young people today, including many young black people, don't appreciate or even know very much about the civil rights movement. "Don't fight back." "Don't talk back." "Sit up straight." "Don't lash out." "Obey your leader." "Look straight ahead." It was in Nashville, you know, where we came up with the list of Do's and Don'ts. Q: Because the urge to fight back was just too strong.Ī: That's right. But they couldn't handle putting themselves in positions where they could be attacked or arrested. But they did other things, like picking people up and taking them to the meeting places, or passing out leaflets, or making signs. Q: There were some people, as you note in "March," who realized during the nonviolence training that they were not cut out for the sit-ins.Ī: Yes, there were people who couldn't take it, couldn't take the discipline. ![]() ![]() And many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic. ![]() He taught us the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence. We had a great teacher, a young man by the name of Jim Lawson, who was a Methodist minister and a pacifist. And we had a greater understanding of the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence. But it was the Nashville sit-ins that, according to Dr. ![]()
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