Practicing the Dharma, using loving speech and deep listening, we can help each other remove wrong perceptions so that people will no longer be fearful and angry. That’s what we should do in order to stop wars, prevent terrorism, wipe out violence, and make peace.

1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.


2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.


3. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.


4. Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.


5. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.


6. Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.

to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, because noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and