Peace and Nonviolence - Great-Essays Collection - Guinan

The single greatest collection of essays on nonviolence.


Contents
IF WE LISTEN WELL

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..... 1
Edward Guinan, C.S.P.

1. CHRISTIAN NON-RESISTANCE

............................................ 7
WHAT A CHRISTIAN NON-RESISTANT CANNOT
CONSISTENTLY DO

............................................................. 8
Adin Ballou

2. A LETTER FROM

JAIL............................................................. 11
A MEDITATION FROM CATONSVILLE................................. 13
Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

3. AN OPEN LETTER TO A

BISHOP........................................... 17
Philip Berrigan, S.S.J.

4. CHRIST’S

TEACHINGS............................................................

25
Vinoba Bhave

5. STATIONS ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM............................ 28
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

6. FETTERS OF

INJUSTICE......................................................... 30
Dom Helder Camara

7. CREATIVE NON-

VIOLENCE.................................................. 38
STATEMENT AT COMPLETION OF FAST............................. 39
Cesar Chavez

8. MILITANT NON-

VIOLENCE................................................... 41
William Sloane Coffin

9. NOT THE SMALLEST GRAIN OF INCENSE . . . . 46
Tom Cornell

10. FALL

APPEAL...............................................................

............ 49
CATHOLIC WORKER POSITIONS ..........................................

51
Dorothy Day

11. NON-VIOLENCE VS. THE

MAFIA......................................... 55
EXCERPT FROM NEWSLETTER ............................................

58
Danilo Dolci

12. OUR FATHER

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......... 60
Desiderius Erasmus

13. LETTER TO OLIVER

CROMWELL.......................................... 62
THE TIME OF MY COMMITMENT...........................................

63
George Fox

14. LOVE

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...................... 66
MY FAITH

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............... 67
RELIGIOUS

SATYAGRAHA...................................................... 68
NON-VIOLENCE VS.

VIOLENCE.............................................. 69
MY FAITH IN NON-

VIOLENCE................................................ 71
Mahatma Gandhi

15. DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS, 1838 ..................... 73
William Lloyd Garrison

16. ACTIVE NON-

VIOLENCE........................................................ 79
Hildegaard Goss-Mayr

17. VIOLENCE

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............ 86
James Groppi

18. CONDEMNATION

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89
LOVE IN

ACTION...............................................................

........ 90
Thich Nhat Hanh

19. THE MEANING OF THIS

HOUR.............................................. 99
Abraham J. Heschel

20. LETTER TO A MINISTER OF

STATE..................................... 104
Hermann Hesse

21. ADDRESS TO THE CONGRES DE LA PAIX_____________ 109
Victor Hugo

22. IS THERE ANYTHING THE INDIVIDUAL CAN
STILL DO?

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......... 112
Franz Jagerstatter

23. THINGS NEW AND

OLD.......................................................... 114
Clarence Jordan

24. SUFFERING AND

FAITH.......................................................... 121
EXCERPTS FROM

SPEECHES.................................................. 122
Martin Luther King, Jr.

25. PEACE AND

REVOLUTION.................................................... 126
Thomas Merton

26. I BELIEVE

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............. 129
Perry Muckerheidi

27. THE WORKABILITY OF NON-VIOLENCE............................ 132
A. J. Muste

28. FIRST LETTER TO THE DELAWARE INDIANS 139
William Penn

29. PACEM IN TERRIS

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141
CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH IN THE
MODERN

WORLD................................................................

. 142
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES .......................................

143
JUSTICE IN THE WORLD

......................................................... 144
STATEMENT OF AMERICAN BISHOPS................................. 146
Popes, Bishops, Councils

30. AN INDIAN PRAYER: A PROPOSAL TO MAN 148
Rod Skenandore

31. STATES OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD..................................

153
REPLY TO CRITICS

..................................................................

154
ADVICE TO A DRAFTEE

......................................................... 158
Leo Tolstoy

32. THE WAR PRAYER

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162
Mark Twain

33. REFLECTIONS ON WAR ........................................................ 171
Simone Weil