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.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves -- that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night -- so the rope, paper, knife.
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
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