Season for Nonviolence 2009
Season for Nonviolence 2009 |
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Opening Ceremony at 6pm Monday January 18th at Placerville Town Hall |
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Click on any of the following links to read contents. What is the Season for Nonviolence? • Some Words of Nonviolence • Youth Violence: Fact Sheet • Nonviolence Reading List |
| Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech was given exactly one year to the day before he was killed. It was his most clear and powerful speech making the connection between racism, poverty, war, and excessive materialism. Everyone should read or listen to this speech at this point in time. Click on this link to here or read the speech. Beyond Vietnam |
The terrible violence of the twentieth century holds a lesson for the twenty-first. It is that, in a steadily and irreversibly widening sphere, violence, always a mark of human failure and a bringer of sorrow, has now also become dysfunctional as a political instrument. Increasingly it destroys the ends for which it is employed, destroying the user as well as the victim. It has become the path to hell on earth, and perhaps the end of earth. (Jonathan Schell)
Humanity is at a crossroads. It has to make its choice between the law of the jungle and the law of the spirit. (M. K. Gandhi)
We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we will die together as fools. (M. L. King)
Humanity as animal is violent, but as spirit, is nonviolent. The moment we awake to the spirit within, we cannot remain violent. Either we progress toward nonviolence, or we rush to doom. (M. K. Gandhi)
A nation that continues year after year to spend more on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. (M. L. King)
The states that are today nominally democratic have either to become frankly totalitarian or, if they are to be truly democratic, they must become courageously nonviolent. (M. K. Gandhi)
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e., hate ruled us, we should have become
extinct long ago. And yet the tragedy is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct
themselves as if the basis of society was violence. (M. K. Gandhi)
I know that the progress of nonviolence is seemingly a terribly slow progress. But experience has taught me it is the surest way to the common goal. (M. K. Gandhi)
Nonviolence cannot simply be preached, it must be practiced. (M. K. Gandhi)
Those who are attracted to nonviolence should, according to their ability and opportunity, join the experiment. (M. K Gandhi)
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics. The whole gamut of one’s activities today constitutes an indivisible whole. You cannot divide social, economic, political, and purely religious work into watertight compartments. (M. K. Gandhi)
Before all else, non-cooperation with evil is the first duty of the nonviolent person (M. K. Gandhi)
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measure of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support, are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so, frequently, the most serious obstacles to reform. (Henry David Thoreau)
If liberty and democracy are to be truly saved, they will only be by nonviolent resistance no less brave, no less glorious, than violent resistance. And it will be infinitely braver and more glorious because it will give life without taking any. (M. K. Gandhi)
“Men will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations will not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war any more.” And I don’t know about you, but I ain’t gonna study war no more. I ain’t gonna study war no more. (M. L. King)
Return to top of Page| Boulding, Elise | Culture of Peace: The Hidden Story of History |
| Clement, Catherine | Gandhi: The Power of Pacifism |
| Dalai Lama | An Open Heart |
| Louis Fischer | The Essential Gandhi |
| Gandhi, Mohandas K | The Story of My Experience with Truth |
| Hahn, Thich Nhat | Creating True Peace; Being Peace; Peace is Every Step |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | Markings |
| Vaclav Havel | Living in Truth |
| Juergensmeyer, Mark | Gandhi's Way: A Handbook for Conflict Resolution |
| King, Martin Luther | A Testament of Hope: Essential Writings & Speeches of MLK |
| Merton, Thomas | Passion for Peace: The Social Essays of Father Thomas Merton; Gandhi on Nonviolence |
| Meyer, Marvin | Reverence for Life: Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the 21st Century |
| Jonathan Schell | The Unconquerable World |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Civil Disobedience; Life Without Principles; and other Essays |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Kingdom of God is Within You |
| Wiesel, Elie | Conversations with Elie Wiesel |
| Zinn, Howard | The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace |
