“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Gandhi, Quotes of Gandhi, UBS Publishers, New Delhi, (1995) p. 34

When it works to redress a wrong—one of the best-known applications of nonviolence—it awakens the conscience of the wrongdoer or the “reference public,” or both. It is because conscience can be overclouded by conditioning, by wrong perception (especially the perception of another as separate from oneself, aka dehumanization) but can never be wholly eliminated that we regard nonviolence, when correctly offered, as basically infallible.

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