James Lawson (American Activist)
James Morris Lawson, Jr. (born September 22, 1928) was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. He continues to be active in training activists in nonviolence.
Read more about James Lawson (American Activist): Background, Work With Martin Luther King Jr. and The Nashville Student Movement, Work in Memphis, Continued Advocacy of Nonviolent Activism
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“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”
—William James (1843–1916)