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Themes for Week 10
"It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. "There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence." ~ Mahatma Gandhi Days 64 ~ April 4th ~ Celebration April 4 ~ In Closing
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Joint Gandhi-King Principles of Nonviolence:
- Nonviolence means to honour the inherent worth of every human being.
- In nonviolence we naturally seek to understand each other, and build friendship and community.
- Nonviolence means believing that our lives are linked and that what we do impacts the lives of everyone we encounter.
- That we are responsible to and for one another.
- Nonviolence means dedicating ourselves to the fundamental rights of every human being for justice, equity and equality.
- Nonviolence is courageously choosing to practice compassion with our adversaries remembering that we oppose injustice, not people.
- Nonviolence means recognizing love as the power of the human spirit to triumph over injustice, inequity and suffering. It is a true hero’s journey of personal social change.
