Scholars and leaders of nonviolence

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    The Komala Indian festival was a spiritual gathering where fifteen to twenty million people will come together to renounce the material world for meditation and hostility. In other words, India’s great tradition focused mainly on renunciation, nonviolence, and the inner life. India was a civilization that was poor, but their souls were full of dignity and freedom. The Indians believed that all life was sacred. They honored the spiritual life and their basic belief of hinduism reinforced this idea;

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    Martin Luther King Jr. He had the option to lead protest violently or nonviolently, and he believed nonviolent protests were the best weapon to fight for equal rights. Though African Americans still have inequality to this day. While King and other leaders fought peacefully in the past, protester Wes Annac believes America has the mindset that fighting violently like riots are the only way to get their voice heard which is not the way for voices to be heard. Those who are given authority were initially

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    SNCC played a tremendous role in the civil rights movement, and the freedom rides, which tried to desegregate busses. One of the major things the civil rights activists were trying to convey, was nonviolence. The Southern Christian Leadership Committee was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. The SCLC group tried to come across as nonviolent, they wanted peaceful protest and nothing else. They also helped form the Montgomery Bus boycott, the SCLC was in many

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    Social Reformers of India

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    Mahatma Gandhi: (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) (Father of the Nation, Rashtrapita, राष्ट्रपिता) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women

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    leading to a life of crime; prison eventually altered his whole perspective about his role in society. Unlike MLK JR, whose purpose was predetermined in a household with strict boundaries and Christian love. Most notably, it was his excellency as a scholar that gave MLK JR his signature; being that at only 15 years of age he enrolled into Morehouse College. However, it was Malcolm X with the intelligence of peace through the Nation of Islam and spirituality of Black Nationalism, these components made

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    Some people on Earth seek to see the change they would like to see in the world. Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of those people and his heroic actions and his attempt for standing up for the people of El Salvador made a big impact in the world. Throughout Romero’s life his views were changed based on the political climate of El Salvador and the well-being of the por campesino people that lived there. Romero’s view of the people of El Salvador and their conflict with the government and radical communist

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    Martin Luther King, not only because of the social consciousness the sit-ins raised, but also the forbearance and fortitude of its participants who “adhered to the principles of nonviolence” and nonviolent petitions.15 And for the purpose of this account on Fisk University, it is important that I note that U.S. Representative John Lewis, an organizer of the student sit-in demonstrations, and one of the original Freedom Riders during

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    How did Americans challenge racist laws? Many black poets challenged racism through the composition of stirring poetry and prose, using their gifts as a means of expressing their sentiments of the inequities they suffered, and their desire to see and experience equality and freedom from racism. Novelists likewise detailed the humiliation and suffering of black Americans, challenging the place that whites had relegated them to and the offhanded dismissal of their value as individuals. Music and

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    in 1974, includes Washington's home, student-made college buildings, and the George Washington Carver Museum. Though Washington offered little that was innovative in industrial education, which both northern philanthropic foundations and southern leaders were already promoting, he became its chief black exemplar and spokesman. In his advocacy of Tuskegee Institute and its educational method, Washington revealed the political adroitness and accommodationist philosophy that were to characterize his

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    Charles Wesley is mostly known as a Methodist hymn writer. However, he made many more contributions to the Methodist movement than just hymns. He was the co-creator of the movement with his brother John. He was also a preacher, a leader, and a theologian, in addition to a hymn writer. He is rarely considered separately from his brother, except concerning his hymns. Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley by John R. Tyson and Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity

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