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53c2547 In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harming Flower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. buddhist flowers nonviolence v-49 Anonymous
511e358 Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr.
88af4d7 [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr.
2c42f9e On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence. antiracism assumptions charter-for-compassion compassion compassion-action-network compassion-heals-lives cultural-differences cultural-diversity desperation fear global-community humanity militarization military-conflict nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution opportunity-quotes overcoming-fear panic peacism polarization police-reform police-shootings political-philosophy prejudice slpendid-literarium stop-killing-each-other terrorism terrorists trust uncertainty waging-peace war xenophobia Aberjhani
fee470d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. agape-love american-history black-history-month civil-rights-movement compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution courage dreams faith famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders hope human-rights-day humanity i-have-a-dream-speech leadership love martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions spirituality strength voting-rights-act-of-1965 Aberjhani
519c8df We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. civil-rights civil-rights-movement conscience hatred nonviolence peace protest racism racism-in-america resistance segregation Martin Luther King Jr.
01b16d9 One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate. gentleness nonviolence violence Tom Robbins
12680c5 If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody? life nonviolence violence Sena Jeter Naslund
81bf600 For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others--the only way to heal broken humanity. nonviolence James H. Cone
812885b The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life--love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire-hoses that tore off their clothes and tumbled them into the streets. They seemed to love the men who raped them, the women who cursed them, love the children who spat on them, the terrorists that bombed them. Why are they showing this to us? Why were only our heroes nonviolent? I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that blacks are in especial need of this morality. nonviolence Ta-Nehisi Coates
bfbf2fa King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks. nonviolence race Howard Zinn