The midwives Puah and Shifra carried out the first act of civil disobedience. Jr. The Universe is so structured that things do not quite work out rightly if men are not diligent in their concern for others. The self cannot be self without other selves. I cannot reach fulfillment without thou. Social psychologists tell us that we cannot truly be persons unless we interact with other persons.
All life is interrelated.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. The non-violent resister rises to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. Non-violence can reach men where the law cannot touch them. From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What is required is a continuous effort to overcome hardness of heart, callousness, and above all to inspire the world with the biblical image of man, not to forget that man without God is a torso, to prevent the dehumanization of man. For the opposite of human is not the animal.