If someone were to come along who would not compromise, a rebel who insisted on taking the only moral path, rejecting violence in all its forms, such a person would seem so menacing that he would be k...
ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.
Diggers,
Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.
An Appeal
Nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.
The Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression worth his salt or e...
Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.
One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
Manichaeism
La no violencia, exactamente igual que la violencia, es una forma de persuadir, una técnica para el activismo político, un sistema para prevalecer. La
History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the a...
Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.
Europeans started wearing linen underwear instead of wool. There is no record indicating that this made the Europeans less irritable, but it did make a lot more rags available.
Davy’s work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolutio...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a French monk, Marcel Audiffren, invented the world’s first electric-powered household refrigerator
A form of entertainment that has recently become very popular, particularly in the smaller towns, is the Coca-Cola party. Usually the ladies assemble between eleven and twelve in the morning at the ho...
While every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence
The story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.
Segundo’s best friend Silvio traded appliances for clothes, designer clothes—well, not really, but he thought they were—Chinese-made Armani suits and Italian silk shirts from Vietnam, all with designe...