The key to non-violent protest is that you don’t plan on going home afterward. You go, you stay, and you don’t leave – until somebody drags you to the jail, the hospital, or the morgue.
The key to nonviolent protest is that they have to be an alternative to violence - in other words, both sides must be fully aware that either nonviolence works or violence follows.
The key to non-violent protest is that you don’t plan on going home afterward. You go, you stay, and you don’t leave – until somebody drags you to the jail, the hospital, or the morgue.
The key to nonviolent protest is that they have to be an alternative to violence - in other words, both sides must be fully aware that either nonviolence works or violence follows.
That’s certainly not how Gandhi imagined it would work.