Plant seeds of peace...

Plant seeds of peace.

Martin Luther King Jr. is my main teacher, preaching nonviolence.

These were his 6 points for nonviolence, all as relevant today as back in the 60’s in the middle of the civil rights movement I grew up in Detroit:

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Six Principles of Nonviolence are:

Principle one: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil. It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.

Principle two: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. The result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation. The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.

Principle three: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Nonviolence recognises that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people. The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil, not people.

Principle four: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform. Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation. Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.

Principle five: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body. Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.

Principle six: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice. The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win. Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.

MLK's nonviolence has to be the way forward. See my piece on the violence of our financial service insurance scheme stresscareless here.

Timothy