Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110118:03:40:00
Nonviolence. he did not promise that being civil, being nonviolent, that choosing democracy with a little "d" would mean that others would not attack. in fact, he knew that it would. he knew that kind of self-control would often lead the opposition into attack. so he called us to be courageous in the face of those attacks and he also never said that civility was an end in itself. it was simply a means. but the end was justice. so i don't think king will be happy if we all hold hands and repeal health care. the point is not to be civil just to be civil but to be civil as we work towards a more ...