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.
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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