Oppressed groups gain deliverance only by accumulating power to enforce change

Evidence

“When a people are mired in oppression, they realize deliverance only when they have accumulated the power to enforce change,” King wrote. “Power is not the white man’s birthright; it will not be legislated for us and delivered in neat government packages.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1009

Categorization

• QUESTION: This reversed the persuasion-first model King had long championed — worth tracing how this squares with the civil disobedience emphasis that follows.
• XREF: connects to: Oppressed people will rebel regardless of rulers’ divine claims — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 281