QUOTES
"If
we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to
sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
We
have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that
every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human
life.
I believe
that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts
and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and
life-giving for all. Some people will argue that this is too idealistic. I believe
it is very realistic. I am convinced that humanity is fast evolving to this higher
consciousness. For those who say it cannot be done, let us remember that humanity
learned to abolish slavery. Our task now is no less than the abolition of violence
and war .... We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous
time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.
We
need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.
To
enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live.
This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community
level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed
when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have
a say in their own lives and communities.
"...I
believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward
fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -- that we neeed to renew
this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create
a culture of nonviolence."
