Violence Practiced when Oppressed
Violence is the root of hate. If you water it with more violence, it will grow- never taming it. The poisonous tree will bloom with fruits bearing more hate and injustice than before. The cause, even if it is a good one, will be lost within the fight, resulting in pure violence. In violence people forget who they are; they forget why and what they are fighting for. Non-violence leads to higher ethics- the goal of all evolution. Harming other living beings in order to bring across the reasons why one is fighting the other is not any better than the people who oppress or practice injustice and violence. Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement against the British rule, employed nonviolent civil disobedience; Gandhi had led India to independence and inspired civil rights movements and freedom around the world, through his peaceful acts of resistance. A famous quote of his, stating “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.” explains how important it is
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His anti-communist views and the criticism of Chinese governing resulted in his imprisonment. Calling for political reforms and to end single-party rule, he had campaigns invoking the oppression China’s communist rule created. He even won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on resolving and advocating political and social oppression. His most famous quote reads: “The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as a man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.” Amplifying how non-violent disobedience is the dignified responds to oppression and injustice. Also, how love should always be the answer to hate, and violence can never be used as a weapon against