"It was a fundamental principle of Gandhi's way of life that evil must always be resisted, but in ways and by methods of action that are nonviolent."
"I must not resist an aggressor with violence; yet I must remain in control of the situation not by the power of force, but through truth and love. I must always express the truth and confront the adversary with the truth. At the same time I must always look for the truth that is in the other. It may be there but hidden. Part of my task as a nonviolent person is to try to discover it. I must always express love, but also I must always look for love. And I must understand that it may be expressed in such a clumsy way that it is obscured and easy for me to miss. Nonviolence has a keen eye for the truth and the love that are in the other, but so hidden that only the most sensitive heart can perceive them."
From Seeking the Face of God, by William H. Shannon
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