Non-Violence
by Lael Johnson · updated 1mo ago
Non-Violence
- Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
- Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
- Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
- Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
- Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
- Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Six Principles of Nonviolence by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
- Nonviolence takes another approach. Practitioners of nonviolence seek to become their truest selves by slowly learning to love all beings, confident that all are kin and that we are called to embody this kinship concretely, especially in the midst of our most difficult and challenging conflicts.... Nonviolence is committed to challenging and resist... See more
from Nonviolence Is an Act of Love
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
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