I just got home and switched on the radio. On it was an interview with Dr. Arun Gandhi. Growing up, Arun's grandfather (who is so famous) spent an hour with him every day asking him to track the violent acts of the day. Violence, he learned, was any act where you hurt another person: calling them names, imposing injustices on them, disappointing them. These passive acts of violence hurt people who may then respond in violence themselves until it's escalated to a point where Hitler or Bin Laden are doing their things. Violence can be passive (aka passive aggressive) or active, subconscious or conscious, but in any case, we can chose to respond to it with violence or with humility. In contemporary society humility may seem like powerlessness at first, it can have a very powerful impact on the outcome by redirecting the relationship out of an escalating cycle of violence.
Meeting Hate with Love: Stories of King and Gandhi
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