Nonviolence as a way of life

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When you look at closely
Martin Luther King,

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Mahatma Gandhi, others,

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for them nonviolence
was a way of life.

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So they were not only just
nonviolent in the streets

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when they were doing resistance,

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they were nonviolent
in their personal relationships.

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They were nonviolent
even in their spirit

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and in the way they responded.

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And that was part of how they
dealt with some of their anger

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against injustice was they had
a spirit of nonviolence.

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Others used it as a tactic.

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And King, you were certainly
aware of that.

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And as a tactic

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when you when the other side
has more arms than you do

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and you're going to lose
a military battle,

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nonviolence can be a method
for doing social change.

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And it draws
lots of media attention

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if you're in a society
that has a free press.

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But for King it
was just consistent.

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There was a incident that
happened at one of his events

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where a person jumped on
the stage while he was speaking

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and slugged him in the face,
knocked him down.

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He spun around

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and those that were watching
him said his arms never came up.

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His eyes always had
a sense of peace and love

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for this person that hit him.

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And many people who had up to
that point questioned whether

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King was really
committed to nonviolence

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so that proved that
he was because this was just

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he wasn't out marching.

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He wasn't out you know
in the work resisting.

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He was just holding a meeting

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and someone I think who was
a Neo-Nazi jumped up on the stage

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and hit him. And then
afterwards when the police came

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King went prayed with
the gentleman and said let him go.

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I mean so his life was just one
consistent line of nonviolent

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because for him his faith and
his nonviolence were inseparable.