![]() Human beings are not by nature nonviolent. You can only survive so many beatings, so much humiliation, so much despair, so many broken promises, before something gives. That a moment was coming when we couldn't guarantee, that no one could guarantee, that he won't reach a breaking point. But there were many, many, many, many, more students who had given up who were desperate and who Malcolm X can reach, for example, much more easily than I can. These students we're talking, when I was in Tallahassee, there were some students protesting. And furthermore there were always these students that we're talking about, a minority. Is that something that you cannot expect them to remain completely nonviolent? No, you can't, you can't. I mean his image, I have nothing against him. ![]() Those children had to go, had to pay a terrible price in discipline, in moral discipline, and int- interior effort and courage which the country cannot imagine, because it still thinks Gary Cooper, for example was a man. ![]()
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