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[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-new-nonviolence_b_59cfa66ee4b034ae778d4ad7 by Harry Boyte 1/10/17 HUFFPOST] | [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-new-nonviolence_b_59cfa66ee4b034ae778d4ad7 by Harry Boyte 1/10/17 HUFFPOST] | ||
Though it has ancient roots in religions and earlier struggles, nonviolence as a method of large scale change was first developed by Mahatma Gandhi and his colleagues in South Africa in the early 20th century to challenge bigotry against Indians. | Though it has ancient roots in religions and earlier struggles, nonviolence as a method of large scale change was first developed by Mahatma Gandhi and his colleagues in South Africa in the early 20th century to challenge bigotry against Indians. | ||
=====Non-Violence Uses Love as Force===== | |||
[https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/non-violence-uses-love-as-force/ by Richard Moser 9/2/18 COUNTERPUNCH] | |||
“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored…there is a type of of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. | |||
