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Yeah, yeah. We see the riots taking place already, before the summer has started, We've seen three or 4 riots in communities in our nation. Now, I will continue to condemn riots. I think if you know anything about my philosophy, you know that it is a philosophy

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of Nonviolence and I will always remain true to that philosophy because I believe in it and I'm still convinced that the most important weapon available to the negro and his struggle for freedom and human dignity is non violent resistance. And I am convinced. And if our

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programmatic strategy ever becomes a violent strategy, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless rain of meaningless chaos. So I realize that black rioting can be black suicide. On the

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other hand, though, it is necessary for me to say something just as strongly, it is necessary for me to condemn the conditions that cause people to feel that they have no other alternative to get attention but to engage in a riot. So while condemning riots, I

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insist on being as vigorous in condemning the persistent existence of intolerable conditions in our society which caused people to riot