March: Week 3

Written By Stephanie Van Hook

“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”

―Mahatma Gandhi

In principled nonviolence, we do not ignore or suppress our anger, we use its power and convert/transform it.

Watch these two video interviews with the late US Civil Rights activist Dr. Bernard Lafayette on Anger and Love.

Reflect on the dynamics he is describing. You may enjoy watching more of the videos he offered with the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence.

Valarie Kaur is leading a movement called “Revolutionary Love.” We will be interviewing her on Nonviolence Radio this week, lucky us!

Watch her TED talk.

Study her compass.

Share your insights with one another in the comment section below.

Stephanie Van Hook
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March: Week 2