“Julian’s opposition to violence is almost an obsession. This puts him at odds with the Black militants but he understands their frustration. To explain the feeling, he sometimes quotes Henry McNeal Turner (1834 – 1915), one of the Negroes expelled from the Georgia legislature about 100 years ago:”
“The Black man cannot protect a country if the country doesn’t protect him; and if, tomorrow, a war should arise, I would not raise a musket to defend a country where my mankind is denied…”
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