Non-Violence Theory

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Non-Violence Theory
Examples of how non-violence works:

Martin Luther King

Gandhi

 

Example of how non-violence does not work:

Tiananmen's Square & The Kent State Massacre

Elian Gonzales

 

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"In my opinion nonviolence is not passivity in any shape or form. Nonviolence, as I understand it, is the most active force in the world. ...Nonviolence is the supreme law. During my half a century of experience I have not yet come across a situation when I had to say that I was helpless, that I had no remedy in terms of nonviolence."

Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1935

 

 

 

This web page serves the purpose to inform the reader of a few non-violence theories, and some real-world examples of these theories put to use.

Martin Luther King used non-violent protest in the struggle for racial equality.  One of these protests was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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1966: King was a student of Mahatma Gandhi's extraordinarily successful non-violent methods of civil protest, and adopted them as a staunch theme of the American civil rights movement.

- (Photo by Bob Fitch/Black Star)

Gandhi devoted his life to the used non-violent protest. One of these protests was the Black Act Protest.

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Gandhi, age 77, Noakhali, November 1946

 

 - (Photo provided via ndiagov.org)