I further wonder if any candidate for Prime Minister would have the gumption and nerve to support them in this.

Just let Truth do the work for us. See what happens.

13/13

Disobedience is so much more courageous than violence.

Violence is giving into fear, an attempt to destroy that which scares you.

Disobedience is saying "no" when a gun is pointed at your head. They can kill, they can maim, they can make us hurt, but only we can choose to comply.

Don't.

12/13

Violence leads only to more violence. Hatred leads only to more hatred.

Only love leads to more love. Only peace leads to more peace.

Only tolerance of others leads to more tolerance for ourselves.

11/13

**Why This Works**

I'd love to say my belief in non-violent disobedience stems from some moral superiority of my character. But that would be a total lie. I'm as angry and hateful and prone to violence as anyone.

But I have eyes, and ears, and an ability to comprehend history.

10/13

And Desmond Tutu:

> "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

9/13

And Thich Naht Hahn:

> "Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity."

8/13

And the Dalai Lama:

> "If you have hatred in your heart, then very often your actions will be violent, whereas if you have compassion in your heart, your actions will be nonviolent."

7/13

And Guthrie:

> "I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."

6/13

And Tolstoy:

> "One might think that it must be quite clear to people not deprived of reason, that violence breeds violence; that the only means of deliverance from violence lies in not taking part in it."

5/13

It was good enough for Henry David Thoreau:

> "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood."

4/13

It was good enough for Jesus:

> "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

3/13

And Gandhi:

> "In the end, you will walk out, because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate. And that is what we intend to achieve: peaceful, nonviolent, non-cooperation -- till you, yourselves, see the wisdom of leaving."

2/13

It was good enough for Martin Luther King Jr, who shamed a nation into civil rights:

> "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."