“We are seeing nonviolence working all the time and we are ignoring the lesson.” When nonviolence happens, do we notice? Michael relates two stories: Nurse Joan Black and Antoinette Tuff, and examines how the media interpreted them, and emphasizes that if our understanding of nonviolence were richer, we would learn something powerful about our capacity… read more
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“The greatest force at our disposal”–Daily Metta
May 27: “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of humankind.” –Gandhi (Harijan, July 20 1931) Whenever anyone tries to tell me that violence works better than nonviolence, I like to tell them the story of Antoinette Tuff. Working as bookkeeper in a public school in Decatur, Georgia, Tuff had no special training in… read more
She prevented a school shooting.
Antoinette Tuff was working at the front office of her school when white-male 20 year-old Michael Brandon Hill walked into her school and began threatening a school shooting. He said that he was “off of his medication,” and he said he had nothing to live for. Ms. Tuff maintained that she had been thinking… read more
