“Ahimsa must express itself through acts of service of the masses.” ~ Gandhi, Mahatma, vol. 8., p. 81

Among other ways. But it seems that today, no less than in the India still impoverished by colonial exploitation in Gandhi’s day, fiendish systems of exploitation force a billion people worldwide into dire and unnecessary poverty. Of all forms of violence, this is perhaps the most subtle, cunning, and destructive to the human spirit. Anything we do by way of constructive program to alleviate their suffering will in time come up against the perpetrators of that system and call on us to escalate from constructive program to more outright forms of resistance.

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