I have been teaching principles and practices of peace and nonviolence, especially from Mahatma Gandhi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for 20 years. For me, this was a ministry and after retirement, I have brought it online.

To accompany this poster, I am sharing below a powerful quote from one of Dr. King’s sermons that I believe explain the 2 aspects of the challenge he faced – his movement worked successfully to gain civil rights for black Americans of course, and nonviolence was the path to gaining those rights as well as a spiritual path of Love. Indeed, Dr. King gave his life for his movement.

“”Do to us what you will and we will still love you.

We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws and abide by the unjust system, because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good, and so throw us in jail and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities at the midnight hour and drag us out on some wayside road and leave us half-dead as you beat us, and we will still love you. Send your propaganda agents around the country, and make it appear that we are not fit, culturally and otherwise, for integration, and we’ll still love you. But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom.

We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that WE WILL WIN YOU in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.” MLK “Agape Love” sermon

feather-1588819_960_720.SNV