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Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence.
King’s notion of nonviolence had six key principles. First, one can resist evil without resorting to violence. Second, nonviolence seeks to win the “friendship and understanding” of the opponent, not to humiliate him (King, Stride, 84). Third, evil itself, not the people committing evil acts, should be opposed.
Mar 7, 2022 · Nonviolence can be a safe, effective and lasting way to defeat injustice, but like any other science, it takes some knowledge — and courage and determination.
Nonviolence is directed against evil systems, forces, oppressive policies, unjust acts, but not against persons. Through reasoned compromise, both sides resolve the injustice with a plan of action. Each act of reconciliation is one step closer to the ‘Beloved Community.’
…acting on the principle of nonviolence, according to which violence of any kind is always wrong. Nonviolence can also mean nonviolent resistance, which relies on the difficulties and inconvenience that can be caused to the conqueror or oppressor by a general refusal of the public to cooperate.
Oct 2, 2010 · Definition of Non-Violence. The principle of non-violence — also known as non-violent resistance — rejects the use of physical violence in order to achieve social or political change.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence is both a principle and a practice.
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
1. Means must be as pure as the end. 2. There must be no dual code of ethics for individual and group conduct. 3. Non-violence seeks to [ confuse?] evil by truth, to resist physical foce by soul-force. *4. Non-violence is the relentless pursuit of truthful ends by moral means.
Broadly speaking, nonviolence in the civil rights struggle has meant not relying on arms and weapons of struggle. It has meant noncooperation with customs and laws which are institutional aspects of a regime of discrimination and enslavement.
