*OCTOBER 2ND*
“INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE”
*birthday of ‘mahatma gandhi’*
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“sounds like a good day to bomb a plane…why they’ll never see it coming!”
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(“pacifism” is opposition to ‘war’ / ‘militarism’ / ‘violence’)
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(the word pacifism was coined by the french peace campaigner ‘émile arnaud’ (1864 – 1921) + adopted by other ‘peace activists’ at the ’10th universal peace congress’ in ‘glasgow’ (1901))
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(a related term is ahimsa (“to do no harm”), which is a ‘core philosophy’ in ‘buddhism’ / ‘jainism’ / ‘hinduism’)
(while ‘modern connotations’ are recent, having been explicated since the ’19th century’, ancient references abound)
(in ‘modern times’, interest was revived by ‘leo tolstoy’ in his late works, particularly in “the kingdom of god is within you”)
(‘mohandas gandhi’ (1869 – 1948) propounded the practice of ‘steadfast nonviolent opposition’ which he called “satyagraha”, instrumental in its role in the ‘indian independence movement’)
(its effectiveness served as inspiration to ‘martin luther king’ (junior), ‘james lawson’, ‘james bevel’, ‘thich nhat hanh’, and many others in the ‘civil rights movement’)
(“though keep in mind ‘gandhi’ thought little of black africans”)
(‘pacifism’ was widely associated with the much publicized image of ‘tiananmen square protests’ of ‘1989’ with the “tank man”, where 1 protester stood in ‘nonviolent opposition’ to a column of ‘tanks’)
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥