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.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.
We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.
If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
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