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Nonviolent Responses to Terror & Injustice
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As salamu alaykum wa rahmetullah wa barakatu hu
May Peace be upon you and the infinite mercy and blessings of Allah

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Gandhi on nonviolent army
  • A nonviolent army acts unlike armed men, as well in times of peace as in times of disturbances. Theirs will be the duty of bringing warring communities together, carrying peace propaganda, engaging in activities that would bring and keep them in touch with every single person in their parish or division. Such an army should be ready to cope with any emergency, and in order to still the frenzy of mobs should risk their lives in numbers sufficient for that purpose.

  • Satyagraha (truth-force) brigades can be organized in every village and every block of buildings in the cities. In nonviolent bodies the charger or soul force must mean everything and the physique must take second place. It is difficult to find such persons. That is why the nonviolent force must be small if it is to efficient.

  • [If the nonviolent society is attacked from without] there are two ways open to nonviolence. To yield possession, but non-cooperate with the aggressor ... prefer death to submission.

  • The second way would be nonviolent resistance by the people who have been trained in the nonviolent way.

  • The unexpected spectacle of endless rows upon rows of men and women simply dying rather than surrender to the will of an aggressor must ultimately melt him and his soldiery.

  • A nation or group which has made nonviolence its final policy cannot be subjected to slavery even by the atom bomb.

  • Before general disarmament commences some nation will have to disarm herself and take large risks. The level of nonviolence in that nation, if that even happily comes to pass, will naturally have risen so high as to command universal respect.

Love your enemies. Bless those who curse you.
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Nonviolent Responses to Terror & Injustice
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