Does using nonviolence protect us from getting killed? If we die using nonviolence, what power does it have? Father Kolbe was a prisoner in Auschwitz who stood in to die for another prisoner. Learn about his act of nonviolent courage, his life, and his relevance for the nonviolent path today in this episode. Then stay for… read more
March 7: “So long as the superstition that men should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist. And a nonviolent resister alone can remove such as superstition.” –Gandhi (Hind Swaraj, p. 92) In The Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler recounts the story of one of his personal heroes, Catholic… read more
February 7 “History, then, is a record of an interruption of the course of nature. Soul-force, being natural, is not noted in history.” –Gandhi (Hind Swaraj, Chap. XVII) Imagine walking into a history class in a mainstream, public institution and hearing not the stories of generals and apologies for genocides and massacres, but stories… read more
