The links below are organized by themes and, mostly, by historical sequence. They provide access to a range of historical reflections and original thoughts and movements of nonviolence. Please read them in descending order. By no means are these readings meant to serve as an exhaustive history of nonviolence. As you progress through the readings, you will find, toward the end of our course, links to groups active in nonviolence today. Enjoy.
Beyond
Vietnam - 4 April 1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Address delivered to the clergy and laymen concerned about Vietnam,
at the Riverside Church.
Overview by Elise Boulding, chapter 4 from Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side
of History.
Quakers and Christian Pacifism - John Woolman
Letter to
Garrison
from Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853
Brief Bio of
Frederick Douglass
1818 - 1895
by Rosemary Reuther Also See Chapter 2, by Pam McAllister, in Nonviolent
Social Movements
The Moral Equivalent of War by William James
Conscientous
Objectors
Vietnam Vets
Against the War
Veterans
for
Peace
Helen Caldicott
Read the following Select Chapters from the
online
compilation of Gandhi's "Philosophy: All Men are Brothers."
Chapters
5-14
For additional optional online readings on Gandhi's philosophy, see "The Mind of Mahatma
Gandhi."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapters 1-16 of, Clayborne Carson, ed. The
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner
Books, 1998).
Selection from Why We Can't Wait.
Beyond Vietnam speech. April 4, 1967.
"Letter
from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963.
I've
Been to the Mountain Top His last Speech, Church of God in Christ,
in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968.
Cesar Chavez - a
brief biography.
Treesitting and forest defense as nonviolent civil disobedience -
visit treesite.org
Crist, John T. Strategic
nonviolent conflict [electronic resource] : lessons from the past,
ideas for the future Publisher Washington, DC : U.S. Institute of
Peace, [2002]