Here are two lessons from the core of Mahavir's teachings that we can all learn from, and who knows, perhaps even find room to apply them in our lives.
An indication of the power of effective nonviolent resistance is when not only the oppressor, but also the "bystanders," are confronted with the choice between aiding resistance or publicly siding with brutality.
There has been explosive growth in the number of anti-government individuals and groups in the U.S. who see the government as their enemy.
I was heartened to hear Beck affirm the nonviolence of King, but I would also like to remind him of King's tireless commitment to social justice.
This isn't about what we should eat. That's a matter of personal conscience. What it's about is this: Honoring. Honoring the lives of the animals and plants that die so that we can live.
It has been two months since my husband, Abdullah Abu Rahmah was arrested. We miss him more every day. This letter from was conveyed from his prison cell by his lawyers.
For the last five years our village, Bil'in, has been holding weekly protests against the apartheid wall and settlement built on our land. In Bil'in we fight against the theft of our land with creative nonviolence.
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
By Edith Garwood, Amnesty International USA Israel and Occupied Territories Specialist Remarks made by Bono , New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kr...
Some argue that the Cold War was just too costly for the Soviet empire to maintain. But the wall couldn't have come down without a nonviolent people power uprising.
Obama said, "A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies." But in fact, where nonviolence was attempted against the Nazis, it succeeded.
Ebadi told me that part of her job is to help women interpret Islam "correctly" in order to assert their claim to equal rights. If she is any indication, the Iranian Women's Movement is in extremely capable hands.
Much is heard of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the story of the determined, long-term nonviolent resistance of many Palestinian villagers to the loss of their lands, striking as it may be, is seldom told.
We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.
Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.
None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.
As a longtime student of Gandhian principles, I know that history has plenty of cases wherein intelligence, education, and kindness prevail over ignorance, fear, and cruelty. Whither Barack Obama?
There is a surprising truth about WWII: nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis.
When we hold resentment and hostility, our heart rhythm shifts the actual shape of the heart muscle. The most efficient thing you can do is simply breathe.
I've served nine-and-a-half months, including four months at the California Institute for Men at Chino -- the very prison torn apart by rioting last weekend.
Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.
The harming of civilians -- whether they play in school yards in Southern Israel or seek refuge in schools in Gaza -- constitutes a crime against humanity by any international standard.
The pragmatic test of this millennium is whether nonviolence makes more sense than the use of military power. And, if it does, whether we can evolve toward that stage.
Gazans are resisting, and not primarily through armed struggle. The campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions is underway.
The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.
