Their dream of brotherhood, equality and fellowship were remarkably similar. Hard to imagine the guts and courage, the faith in your convictions it must take to meet physical violence and threats of physical violence with an attitude of peace and non-retaliation. These men went in and out of jail for their beliefs, but their spirits were never broken. Like Ueshiba, they understood that the most powerful force in the universe is love. And they were centered and clear enough in their personal relation to the universe to embody that understanding into social movements that transformed their societies and took their nations on a different path.
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent.
It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know. Non-Violence in Peace and War. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Mich. Click here for more about Gandhi and King.