No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

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Thompson, Jamie (September 29, 2020). "The Armed Women at the Center of the Louisville Protests". POLITICO . Retrieved 16 April 2021. For King, justice — understood as respect for human rights — was a precondition for true peace; peace that preserved injustice was illusory. His 1963 letter from Birmingham Jail expressly called for a “transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality.” This “mass civil disobedience,” he outlined in his comments at a 1968 SCLC organizing retreat, would have to be more than “a statement to the larger society”; it would have to constitute “a force that interrupts its functioning at some key point.” It was from the strategic perspective of organizing a force that could interrupt the functioning of society, then, that King made his criticism of riots: “The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win… Hence, riots are not revolutionary.”

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As officers retreated from the areas where violence had broken out, such as the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie, the uprising accelerated and the city spun out of control. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. … She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness. … That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon. The refrain resounded, as protests and civil unrest gripped the nation that seemed to be awakening to issues Sharpton had preached about for decades.

But this take on the chant is neither the only nor the most plausible reading. When Martin Luther King, Jr., said this outside a California prison where Vietnam war protesters were being held on December 14, 1967, he was hardly trying to start a riot: The Board of Police Commissioners refused to reappoint Williams for a second term in 1997 after personal scandals and opposition from rank-and-file officers. Community policing initiatives did little to shift decision-making over the nature of policing to residents. The LAPD also became embroiled in another controversy during the Rampart corruption scandal in the late-1990s, which led to a federal consent decree requiring Department of Justice oversight of the department. If you want peace, work for justice”—no slogan has perhaps been less identified in the American mind with Catholicism in the last decades than these powerful, concise words uttered almost 50 years ago by Pope Paul VI.Küng generally agreed with Auer’s approach, laid down in his book Autonome Moral. But regarding the question of moral truth, he defended a reflective “theonomy” with respect to the foundation of moral norms. In his effort to integrate ethics into theology, Küng did not attend enough to the relationship of hermeneutical interpretations and normative ethics. Additionally, Johann Baptist Metz critiqued Küng for taking up the overlapping consensus of the liberal tradition. He instead called for compassion for justice as a political-ethical program. I sided with Metz: The only valid standard of ethics is “ the recognition of the authority of those who suffer” (translation corrected). A global ethic, I therefore want to add to Küng’s formulas of peace, must respond to suffering that is caused by moral harm. Ethics demands accountability and justice: “No peace without justice. No justice, no peace.” A global ethic must respond to suffering that is caused by moral harm.Ethics demands accountability and justice: 'No peace without justice. No justice, no peace.' The outbursts cannot be considered an insurrection, because insurrections are organized and can sustain themselves for more than a few days. The riots are powered by spontaneous bitter emotions and therefore die out rapidly. Conditional or conjunctive [ edit ] Protestors chanting "No justice, no peace, no more racist police" in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, after the murder of George Floyd