Gandhi ruled out direct coercion, such as trying to physically block someone. Hostile language was banned. Destroying property was forbidden. Not even secrecy was allowed.
Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.
For example, say that a Third World country undergoes a spontaneous, country-wide, mass noncooperation campaign against its dictator, lasting weeks or even months. Tens of thousands march in the stree...
People try nonviolence for a week, and when it ‘doesn’t work,’ they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries.
Gandhi said, I believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the...
Gandhi and followers break a law—politely. Public leader has them arrested, tried, put in prison. Gandhi and followers cheerfully accept it all. Members of the public are impressed by the protest, pub...
You see, love for the victim demanded struggle, while love for the opponent ruled out doing harm. But in fact, love for the opponent likewise demanded struggle. Why? Because by hurting others, the opp...
I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the dispos...
Gandhi’s most decisive influence on his opponents was more indirect than direct.
Each of us too sees the world through our own filter—a filter made up of our assumptions, our motivations, and the categories we use to sort out and organize our experience. This filter determines how...
What is needed are ecosystems that are designed to produce our food, fuel, animal feed, medicine and fibers, and ecosystems that can do so without the use of fossil fuel technology, those that can tol...
Let me give a general description of what seems really to have happened when Gandhi and his followers committed civil disobedience: Gandhi and followers break a law—politely. Public leader has them ar...
If exponents of armed struggle were less concerned with proving their manliness and more concerned with the welfare of the people they claim to stand up for, they might discover that nonviolent forms...
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. Gandhi
Of course, noncooperation and civil disobedience overlapped. Noncooperation too was to be carried out in a civil manner. Here too, Gandhi’s followers had to cheerfully face beating, imprisonment, conf...