Satyagraha: The Highest Practise of Democracy and Freedom

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004908572199316
Author(s):  
Vandana Shiva
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Passive Resistance ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
The People ◽  
Religion And Race ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Martin Luther King

Satyagraha, or non-cooperation or passive resistance, did not begin with Mahatma Gandhi. As Gandhi acknowledged, he did not ‘invent’ satyagraha, he learnt it from the people of India. The contemporary movements against apartheid, separation on the basis of religion and race, are a continuation of the spirit of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. For Gandhi, satyagraha, the force of truth, was the force not to cooperate with unjust laws that called for a ‘no’ from our deepest conscience. The Champaran Satyagraha against the forced cultivation of indigo and the Salt Satyagraha against the colonial salt law inspired us at Navdanya to start the Bija Satyagraha, which is the Seed Freedom Movement. These seeds have been given freely by nature and by our ancestors who have evolved them. It is our duty to save them and our biodiversity. Navdanya does not cooperate with laws that falsely claim that corporations have ‘invented’ seeds and therefore can take a patent on them: such unconscionable laws aim to criminalise a farmer’s saving and robs them of their seed freedom.

scholarly journals Serve to Lead: Why Serving Others is Essential to Lead?

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Martin Luther King

The purpose of this research paper is to inculcate the attitude of service to serve others selflessly. It explains the benefits and consequences of serving others. It discusses nonprofits, volunteerism, sharing with others, caring for others, adding value to society, and making a difference in the lives of others. It illustrates the consequences of serving others with the examples of Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nelson Mandela. It emphasizes contribution over achievement. It unveils that greatness is determined by service and outlines a nonprofit initiative, Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders. The predominant emphasis is to serve others for a cause, not adulation, and implores the reader to be a giver, not a taker, by infusing life with passion and purpose.

scholarly journals Propostas de emancipação cidadã nas autobiografias de Gandhi, Luther King Jr. e Mandela

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Ingrid Gomes Bassi
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Martin Luther King

Resumo O artigo estuda as propostas de emancipação cidadã nas autobiografias de Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) e Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). Para isso, enfoca nas categorias-conceito: “ser” amor (FROMM, 1956, 1976), transutilitário (FROMM, 1977); prática da não violência (MULLER, 2007); dialogia (SENNETT, 2012; RESTREPO, 1998); direitos à comunicação (PERUZZO, 2009) e direitos humanos (GALLARDO, 2014; BOBBIO, 2004; MARSHALL, 1967), da análise de conteúdo (KRIPPENDORFF, 1990; FONSECA JÚNIOR, 2015), que somada à análise hermenêutica (THOMPSON, 2011) compõem o caminho metodológico traçado. Como resultado, observa-se a habilidade em mediar, a partir da experiência dialógica e ativa, desenvolvendo diante de conflitos e situações díspares de direitos humanos, potencialidade de ser e agir em prol do bem-estar coletivo.

Moral Leadership of the World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Azaransky
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Montgomery Bus Boycott ◽  
The People ◽  
Bus Boycott ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Martin Luther King

In the 1950s, Cold War politics made anticolonial alliances between Africans, Asians, and black Americans suspect, as the demands of governing—as opposed to coordinating a freedom movement—redirected energies and attention. Yet India and Ghana, in particular, remained concrete examples for the network at the center of this book. Benjamin Mays returned to India in 1953 to witness the world’s largest democracy composed of people of color. Bayard Rustin went to Ghana in 1959 to coordinate an international antinuclear and antiimperial protest of French nuclear testing in the Sahara desert. Mays and Rustin were both instrumental to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which inaugurated Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. The decade closed with a new generation of activists and intellectuals taking lessons from the people at the center of this book to spur a mass, nonviolent American freedom movement.

scholarly journals A RELAÇÃO ENTRE DIGNIDADE HUMANA E NÃO VIOLÊNCIA NO MAGISTÉRIO PONTIFÍCIO

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Felipe Sérgio Koller ◽  
Suzana Regina Moreira ◽  
Jefferson Zeferino
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Martin Luther King

O presente artigo apresenta a correlação entre não violência e dignidade humana a partir de um mapeamento do termo “não violência” nos textos do magistério dos papas. Originada no jainismo, a ideia da não violência foi defendida no último século sobretudo por Mahatma Gandhi e Martin Luther King Jr. Foi absorvida pelos papas do pós-Concílio Vaticano II a partir do diálogo inter-religioso e intercultural, embora seja tida também por eles como inerente à fé cristã. Paulo VI foi o primeiro papa a utilizar a expressão “não violência” em seus textos, sendo que o primeiro uso remonta a 1964. João Paulo II destacou que o fundamento da não violência é o reconhecimento da dignidade humana, no que foi seguido por seus sucessores, Bento XVI e Francisco, cada um a seu próprio modo. Como resultado, nota-se a força de sentido da não violência em sua possibilidade de contribuição a uma ética pública, como elemento de destaque no diálogo inter-religioso e como resistência às formas religiosas de expressão que se caracterizam justamente pelo ódio e pela violência.

Eudaimonism, Human Nature, and the Burdened Virtues

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55
Author(s):  
Celeste Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Black Freedom Movement ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article explores the prospects for a eudaimonist moral theory that is both feminist and Aristotelian. Making the moral philosophy developed by Aristotle compatible with a feminist moral perspective presents a number of philosophical challenges. Lisa Tessman offers one of the most sustained feminist engagements with Aristotelian eudaimonism (Tessman 2005). However, in arguing for the account of flourishing that her eudaimonist theory invokes, Tessman avoids taking a stand either for or against the role Aristotle assigned to human nature. She draws her account of flourishing instead from the beliefs about flourishing implicit in the feminist and black freedom movements. I examine the implicit conception of flourishing in the writings of two prominent leaders of the black freedom movement—Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X—and argue that Tessman's attempt to avoid the “sticky issue” of human nature is not successful. Tessman's defense of the burdened virtues depends on a particular reading of human nature as does a eudaimonist account of the virtues more generally.

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