A History of Non-Violence

As we focus on the theme of Practicing Resistance, let’s focus on nonviolentĀ resistance within our own Unitarian and Universalist history. From Universalist minister Adin Ballou and Unitarian Henry David Thoreau, who influenced Tolstoy and Gandhi, who in turn influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.’s practice of non-violence, we will examine this philosophy that has been a successful means of both protest and liberation.