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Ahimsa Conversation # 28 Monica Sharma

By Monica Sharma — 2020

Ahimsa is made possible by the innate capacity of human beings to care beyond the self. Dr. Monica Sharma has developed a process for enabling people to tap into this capability. She did this over three decades of work in diverse contexts across the world.

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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard (editors)
2002
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land.

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Martin Luther King Jr., James Washington (editor)
2003
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King’s Message of Nonviolence Has Been Distorted

In order to evaluate what Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance of nonviolence has contributed to our current view of protest, it bears noting that the concept of his nonviolence has been flattened.

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Dara T. Mathis
2018
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How the World is Proving Martin Luther King Right about Nonviolence

Clearly, there is much more to learn about nonviolent resistance: It is an emerging phenomenon, and research on the topic is likewise emerging within the social sciences.

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Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
2016
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Traci Blackmon: If These Walls Could Talk

The Rev. Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries United Church of Christ, marks the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Traci Blackmon
2019
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageA right delayed is a right denied.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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