king and ruston, fanny lou hamer, who juan mentioned earlier, and many others who risked their lives that for a minority group, 12-13 percent of the national population, nonviolence was a very practical choice, resort to arms, resort to armed struggle, the choice of former gandhians in contemporary south africa. nelson mandela embraced arms when there was a majority. king and others in their hearts and souls embraced nonviolence as they put it, as a way of life. but even that had a strategic dimension. byron ruston in talking dr. king into getting rid of the gun he kept in his house, convinced him that you got be more rigorous about your nonviolence in order to keep the nonviolent fair-weather allies and activists in line. if they see you waver on nine violence discipline -- discipline was the issue -- then they will waver and discipline will break down and we'll lose. for a minority to leverage its way to power which was outgunned, outspent, outvoted in the southern states, they had to use classics, moral jujitsu, gandhi referred to is at using the strength of your adversaries again