“Unity among the different races and the different communities belonging to different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.” ~ Gandhi, CWMG, xxvi, p. 241

Substitute different political outlooks and change “birth” to “rebirth,” and you have a perfect description of our own need today. The advance of human evolution—and the health of a given society—are always measured in how far people have gotten in realizing the unity of life. Those who play on intolerance of whatever differences for whatever purposes they think they’re serving by doing so are not only causing misery but pushing humanity backwards on the course of our evolution. On the other hand, appealing to the sense of unity, which is exactly what a nonviolent actor does, is often powerful precisely because it beckons back to the path where, on one level or other, we all know we belong: the path to being one family.

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