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In this connection, Wink comments that Lest readers consider this appeal by Wink to nonviolence as a means of resisting evil as quaint but impracticable, we have, in recent years, multiple instances of the effective employment of nonviolence, often under exceedingly difficult circumstances
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In this connection, Wink comments that “The last supper and the crucifixion display Jesus' nonviolent breaking of the spiral of violence by absorbing its momentum with his own body.” (p. 10) Lest readers consider this appeal by Wink to nonviolence as a means of resisting evil as quaint but impracticable, we have, in recent years, multiple instances of the effective employment of nonviolence, often under exceedingly difficult circumstances.
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The last supper and the crucifixion display Jesus' nonviolent breaking of the spiral of violence by absorbing its momentum with his own body.
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consider the cases depicted
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in Philip McManus and Gerald Schlabach, eds. Apart from the well-known movements led by New Society Publishers
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Apart from the well-known movements led by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., consider the cases depicted in Philip McManus and Gerald Schlabach, eds., Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America (New Society Publishers, 1991).
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Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America
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Assuming—as we should assume—that constituted an effort to articulate a standard of justice for all peoples and nations, drafted against the background of an intense struggle against forms of fascism, we can find many principles of justice there on which the positive law in nations throughout the world, including highly developed nations that have ratified the declaration, is silent, sometimes deliberately so. Take, for instance, article 25 which affirms that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of self and family, including food, shelter, needed medical care and social services
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Assuming—as we should assume—that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) constituted an effort to articulate a standard of justice for all peoples and nations, drafted against the background of an intense struggle against forms of fascism, we can find many principles of justice there on which the positive law in nations throughout the world, including highly developed nations that have ratified the declaration, is silent, sometimes deliberately so. Take, for instance, article 25 which affirms that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of self and family, including food, shelter, needed medical care and social services.
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Consider, as cases in point, struggles against laws and decrees sanctioning the enslavement of peoples. The work of BartolomS de las Casas in the 17th century opposing the enslavement of indigenous peoples of North America during the period of the Spanish conquest is described in detail in Albuquerque: U of NM Press
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Consider, as cases in point, struggles against laws and decrees sanctioning the enslavement of peoples. The work of BartolomS de las Casas in the 17th century opposing the enslavement of indigenous peoples of North America during the period of the Spanish conquest is described in detail in Henry Raup Wagner, The Life and Writings of Bartolomi de las Casas (Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 1967).
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