At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Interpretation
Non-violence is fundamentally rooted in love for others.
This quote emphasizes that the core of non-violent activism and resistance is love. It suggests that genuine love for fellow human beings is essential for peaceful protest and social change, indicating that love can be a powerful force against oppression and violence.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, one might say, 'At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.'
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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A ministering angel shall my sister be.
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, βHere begins a new lifeβ.
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.
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