The Class of Nonviolence

THE CLASS OF

NONVIOLENCE

designed by Colman McCarthy
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ISBN 1440441480 EAN-13 9781440441486 The Class of Nonviolence was developed by Colman McCarthy of the Center for Teaching Peace 4501 Van Ness Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 202.537.1372

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Table of Contents
Readings for Lesson One If We Listen Well by Edward Guinan . . . 7 Nonviolent Response to Assault by Gerald Vanderhaar . . . 11 Human Nature Isn’t Inherently Violent by Alfie Kohn . . . 15 Axioms of Nonviolence by Lanzo del Vasto . . . 18 Teaching Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer . . . 23 Students Astutely Aware by Colman McCarthy . . . 26 Readings for Lesson Two Doctrine of the Sword by Mohandas Gandhi . . . 30 Gandhi in the ‘Postmodern’ Age by Sanford Krolick and Betty Cannon . . . 33 Family Satyagraha by Eknath Easwaren . . . 39 Ahimsa by Eknath Easwaren . . . 41 My Faith in Nonviolence by Mohandas Gandhi . . . 43 Love by Mohandas Gandhi . . . 45 A Pause From Violence by Colman McCarthy . . . 47 Readings for Lesson Three Love is the Measure by Dorothy Day . . . 52 Poverty and Precarity by Dorothy Day . . . 54 Undeclared War to Declared War by Dorothy Day . . . 56 This Money is Not Ours by Dorothy Day . . . 58 The Scandal of the Works of Mercy by Dorothy Day . . . 62 Dorothy Day by Colman McCarthy . . . 65 Readings for Lesson Four Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles De Benedetti . . . 72 Loving Your Enemies by Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . 77 Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam by Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . 80 Pilgrimage to Nonviolence by Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . 83 King and Pacifism: The Other Dimension by Colman McCarthy . . . 93

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Readings for Lesson Five Feminism, Peace and Power by Mary Roodkowsky . . . 98 Rape is all too Thinkable for Quite the Normal Sort of Man by Neal King and Martha McCaughey . . . 105 To the Women of India by Mohandas Gandhi . . . 107 Narrowing the... [continues]

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