Nonviolence as first resort still permits justified self-defense

Evidence

That non-violence should be the measure of first and intermediate and patient resort does not entail, does it, that one cannot defend oneself as a matter of last resort, indeed, as a matter of resistance and pushing back? — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 251

Categorization

• QUESTION: The unanswered tension between principled nonviolence and last-resort self-defense is worth pursuing.