Violence Vs Nonviolence: A Dichotomy for Freedom

Violence is what the world lives off of to protect each other. By this I mean, no matter what the situation may be there is mostly a higher percentage that violence will occur. Not because people want it to occur, but because it's the easier way out and will capture the other people’s attention. Let's take the United States of America for an example. We love our freedom and are country is considered the "land of the free", correct? Yes. But, in order to have our freedom we have to fight for it. This being, not everyone, such as other countries, agree with our freedom and how we have such an organized and wealthy government. The outcome of situations such as these is war, and violence. Not intentional, but we have to do so in order to protect our people and our land. All I'm say is violence sometimes has to be taken into action, but the better way out is nonviolence. Nonviolence started with
This was what turned violence into nonviolence. They figured if you kept on feeding the fire with fuel that the fire would get bigger and out of control. They didn't want that. They wanted to control it and face the facts. King and his people were the bigger persons to keep situations under control and handle them in a nonviolence matter, and speak about it. For this, I respect them. Overall, even though violence seems to be the easier way out and a better way to handle situations, it's truly not. It causes situations to get bigger and more violence to occur. The United States of America is at war almost all the time to protect our freedom. These wars get worse because of violence. If only there was a way of handling all situations in a nonviolence way. King and his people sure did show everyone that there is a way. Just speak up instead of making it a war and instead of making things bigger than what they need to