Peace Will Not Be Silenced


Written By: Puck Arks

Peace Will Not Be Silenced

Our violent and plutocratic society needs a nonviolent revolution to end the Neo-imperialist policies of the Governments worldwide by means that promote real compassion, truth, and justice for all. This transformation of militarism must be nonviolent, not only because any violent attempt would be crushed by force, but because we are opposed to using violence. 

This ultimate revolution of our historic era is essentially a revolution to end the use of massive force in wars as instruments of social and political control. The process is one of converting hearts and minds by demonstrating the better ways of using education, communication, mindfulness and active nonviolent persuasion.

The nonviolent method is careful to make sure the means do no harm. By not inflicting any harm on the opponents the nonviolent activists are not immediately threatening to them. However, the opponents may not like the goals of the nonviolent action, and therefore they may inflict harm on the nonviolent people anyway. When this occurs, it is important that we as peaceful activists not retaliate or fight back physically. 

At the same time it is equally important that we persist in our efforts and not give in because of the suffering we are undergoing. Otherwise we are encouraging the opponents to punish us in order to "deter" us. In this way nonviolent activists can earn the respect of opponents who believe in force. 

As they realize that force is not working in stopping the activists' protests, they will have to re-evaluate their tactics and the whole situation. Using nonviolent action is no guarantee that no violence will result, because the opponents may use force. However, it is the strongest form of action that we can use to truly win over the opponents, while minimizing the total violence by not contributing to it at all. The weak method of passive submission does nothing to alleviate the oppression and injustice already present, while violent reaction escalates the violence and oppression of the situation.

We must be careful in our attitudes not to imply that we feel we are superior, because we are critical of what others are doing. We all make mistakes, and the nonviolent way is a path of humility which attempts to peacefully suggest to others that they may wish to examine the morality of what they are doing. We are not insisting that they change or even think like us but we only ask that they at least consider changing and think. 

We do this by presenting them with clear choices, which often result in our own self-sacrifice if they make the choice we believe is wrong. Thus we have not inflicted suffering on them, but we have been willing to suffer in our attempt to alleviate the wrong.

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