“We have to live and move and have our being in nonviolence even as Hitler does in violence.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, July 21, 1940

In practical terms, “live and move and have our being” would mean that our education (including its most powerful form, the mass media), our economy, our judicial system, and in short every institution in our social order would be based on nonviolence, which today, if we are honest, they are not. Thinking through what such alternative institutions would look like, never omitting those which directly affect our mind and our vision of reality, would be the effective remedy against the growing xenophobia and neo-fascism that no present method seems to provide.

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