{"id":51841,"date":"2021-09-10T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/metta\/?p=51841"},"modified":"2022-09-11T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:33:56","slug":"hope-or-terror-20-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/metta\/2021\/09\/hope-or-terror-20-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hope or Terror,\u2019 20 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty years ago, in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, I wrote the pamphlet, \u201cHope or Terror<\/a>\u201d <\/em>to point out the strange coincidence that \u2014 almost a century earlier \u2014 on Sept. 11, 1906 Gandhi launched satyagraha, or active nonviolence,\u00a0at the Empire Jewish Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa. I called these two Sept. 11 events \u201csignposts for two paths that can be taken by the human race,\u201d violence or nonviolence.\u00a0 We know what path the world seems to have chosen.\u00a0 Yet, on the day before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. warned a packed church audience in Memphis that the only real choice is \u201cnonviolence or nonexistence.\u201d\u00a0 And that only becomes clearer with the march of events from then to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are hopeful signs, I\u2019m glad to report.  Amid the endless march of war the United States has undertaken since 1945, there\u2019s been a steady global rise of nonviolence \u2014 not just as a tool for national liberation, as Gandhi used it, but in seemingly inexhaustible applications to human betterment at every level, from the individual to global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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