The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
Interpretation
Nonviolent resistance aims to find a balance between passivity and aggression in addressing conflicts.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the philosophy underpinning nonviolent resistance, which seeks a middle ground between acquiescence, or passivity, and violence, or aggression. King's approach advocates for a moral and effective strategy that rejects both extremes, promoting justice and reconciliation without resorting to harm.
In practice
In a lecture on social justice, one might quote this to illustrate a balanced approach to activism.
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.
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die... _x000D_ The in between is mine._x000D_ I Am Mine
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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