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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
If exponents of armed struggle were less concerned with proving their manliness and more concerned with the welfare of the people they claim to stand up for, they might discover that nonviolent forms of struggle, everything considered, work better.
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Other negative side-effects of violence come into view once the struggle comes to an end. For instance, violence generally leaves the two sides as long-standing enemies. Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth. Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they're used to-in other words, they start running the country like a military camp.
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Mark Shepard _ Restoration Agriculture:
What is needed are ecosystems that are designed to produce our food, fuel, animal feed, medicine and fibers, and ecosystems that can do so without the use of fossil fuel technology, those that can tolerate extremes of weather and potentially changing climates, and that can thrive without supplemental irrigation from vulnerable and increasingly expensive public utilities.
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Mark Shepard _ Restoration Agriculture:
Already legal and political moves are being made to drain the Great Lakes as a water supply for a thirsty western region.
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Other negative side-effects of violence come into view once the struggle comes to an end. For instance, violence generally leaves the two sides as long-standing enemies. Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth.
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
For example, say that a Third World country undergoes a spontaneous, country-wide, mass noncooperation campaign against its dictator, lasting weeks or even months. Tens of thousands march in the streets, newspapers and radio stations defy the censors, whole cities are shut down for days at a time as people go on strike. Noted citizens call for the dictator's resignation, no one follows his orders, he has completely lost control. Finally, four or five military officers, carrying out the obvious will of the people, march nearly unopposed into the presidential palace, arrest the dictator, and escort him out of office. Chances are that our news media and history books will thereafter attribute the dictator's downfall, purely and simply, to "a military coup.
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Each of us too sees the world through our own "filter"-a filter made up of our assumptions, our motivations, and the categories we use to sort out and organize our experience. This filter determines how we see the world. When we come across something that doesn't match our assumptions, motivations, and categories, our filter blocks it out. It's not that we choose to reject it. Consciously, we don't even perceive it. Or else we perceive it in a partial, distorted form. It seems that nonviolence has a particularly hard time passing through many people's filters.
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Mark Shepard _ Gandhi Today: A Report on
Fearlessness is indispensable for the growth of the other noble qualities. How can one seek Truth, or cherish Love, without fearlessness?
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force.
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Mark Shepard _ Gandhi Today: A Report on
Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Satyagraha-Gandhi's nonviolent action-was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides.
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Mark Shepard _ Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths:
Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they're used to-in other words, they start running the country like a military camp.
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