“Violence is never the answer” is always the catchcry of people who wield the whip.
Violence can never be removed from the conditions that produced it—to deny this is an idealist fantasy:
“We were told that violence in itself is evil, and that, whatever the cause, it is unjustified morally.
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave m…