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nonviolence
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KING AND THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY OF NON VIOLENCE (AHIMSA) Some of the first writings to talk about non-violence spring from Northern India around 599-527 BCE with the Saint Mahavira, and later in 563-483 BCE in the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.
In a befitting tribute to the man who not only preached but also practised non-violence, October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi has been declared by the UN as the International Day of Non Violence.
The tactic of non-violence has certainly been highly propagandized, to the point that many of us have erroneously come to believe that it was non-violence, as practiced by Gandhi, that freed India from British colonial rule, and that it was the non violence of Dr.
 
 
 
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