H OnOring D r . M ArTin L uTHer K ing , J r .
Advocate
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Rosa Epenrosa, student at Portland Opportunities
industrialization Center
“Yes, I do believe in nonviolence. I personally might protest and
use nonviolent protest. There’s no need for violence. We do need
change. Gang violence is the thing I am most concerned about right
now. We need to change the community and the people around us. I
think if we talk to people in gangs it will help. If we listen and get
where they are coming from then we can help them.”
dylan Muldrew, musician
“I’m a churchgoer, but I don’t do that ‘turn the other cheek’ thing.
There has to be a time when you are getting beaten on and hit, that you
fight back. There is still power in nonviolence as long as it stays non-
violent. But you can be part of the movement in so many ways. You
don’t have to get beaten up.”
Ordway Tyler, pre-med student
at PCC Cascade
“Will nonviolence work? No. No-
one wants to listen. I want world
peace, but it’s not going to happen.
There are too many forces beyond
our control that don’t want the wars
to end. So we can’t make change, but
we can try. If there wasn’t as much
violence, and if people didn’t get as
mad – if people could spend as much
time being happy as they do being
mad, we would have a very different
world. We have to change ourselves
before we can change the world.
Teressa Raiford, candidate for
Portland City Council
“Nonviolence is a very good way
to go about social change, because
we don’t want people getting hurt
when they are fighting for their
rights. But you have to use nonvio-
lence with a plan and with knowl-
edge. I talked to some people from
the Occupy movement who didn’t
know their rights. So they were upset
when police used batons or pepper
spray, but they didn’t know how to
file a complaint. They didn’t know
that there is an Independent Police
Review and a Citizens Review
Committee. They didn’t know to ask
for a badge number and that it is ille-
gal to hide it.
“When you have knowledge you
can fight a lot of battles without get-
ting physical.”
January 11, 2012 The Portland and Seattle Skanner Martin Luther King Edition Page 11