Greatness of Nonviolence

 

Hundreds of Penn healthcare workers gathered at Franklin Field (Philadelphia, PA) to honor George Floyd on June 7, 2020 and protest racial inequality. Photo by Chase Sutton, https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/12/penn-black-lives-matter-blm-protest-year-in-review-2020

The greatness of nonviolent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny
and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love,
to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility,
to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.
--Liu Xiaobo