Nonviolence is active love

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I would define nonviolence then
as act of love

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that pursues the truth
of our common unity

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that we're all one, already reconciled.

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Every human being on the planet
is your very sister and brother.

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And so we're persistently
reconciling with everyone,

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and rooting out the violence
within each one of us

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and standing up publicly to stop
and resist and transform

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all these structures
and institutions of violence

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practicing what I call

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unconditional universal non retaliatory
sacrificial love

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for all human beings and all
creatures in the whole creation.

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It's so beautiful.
But there's one catch with nonviolence,

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and that's what the word helps.

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And that is,

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there is no cause however noble
for which we will ever again support

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the taking of a single human life.

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We do not kill people
for a just cause or any reason.

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We don't kill people who kill people

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to show that you
shouldn't kill people.

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The days of killing are over.