#non-violence

[kropotkindersurprise]

Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver on non-violence. [source]

Non-violence is a very non-functional approach in a society that's based entirely on organized force and violence. A country that was created in violence, land was taken in violence, a society that's perpetuating itself through violence in the ghettos, in Vietnam, in Africa. Wherever you look, there is organized force and violence at work to maintain this society. There is a world of difference between 20 million unarmed people, and 20 milion people organized and armed to the gills. That's Power.

[describe-things]

[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

[democracyunderground]

[jareckiworld]

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd — Non-Violence Project "The Knotted Gun" [sculpture, polished bronze and black granite base, 1980]

[porterdavis]

Hard to do but it just might work

[dandanjean]

La paix du bouddhisme

Pour les bouddhistes, la paix n’est pas un simple état émotionnel agréable, c’est la conséquence directe d’une compréhension juste de la réalité. Ainsi, le nirvāṇa est un état découlant de l’extinction des trois feux que sont l’avidité, l’aversion et l’illusion. La paix bouddhiste n’est donc pas l’absence temporaire de trouble, mais l’épuisement définitif des causes mêmes de l’agitation…

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[were-here-because]

IMPORTANT PSA TO THOSE ATTENDING NO KINGS TODAY

It is very important to keep the movement’s goals toward non-violence in spirit today. There will be massive incentives on the right and by the media to catch protesters doing dangerous, illegal, or immoral things.

We cannot afford to give them the opportunity.

[postersbykeith]