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Si vis pacem, para bellum. Agree or disagree?

What are your thoughts?
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It depends. During the Civil Rights movement, that motto would've applied much more to Malcolm X's methods than to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's, and yet the latter is more widely admired. Of course the ultimate irony is that in the end, both died violently.
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Very interesting look at the use in a civil rights context. Good points!