Rethinking history : who makes it? And how? -- Nonviolence is how to resist when you refuse to submit or take up arms : Gandhi and Indian independence -- Nonviolence is how to fight when everyone thinks you're weak : Alice Paul and votes for women -- Nonviolence is how to fight when your opponent really hates you : Martin Luther King Jr. and Project C -- Nonviolence is how to grow your side (so you can win the fight) : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement -- Nonviolence is how to create a true democracy out of its exact opposite : Václav Havel and the Velvet Revolution -- Nonviolence is how to fight today for a livable tomorrow : Greta Thunberg and the climate change movement -- Other notable nonviolence movements of the last one hundred years.
Summary:
Explores the lives of people who used nonviolence to help further their cause, such as Gandhi and Indian independence, Alice Paul and women's voting rights, Václav Havel and the overthrow of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Greta Thunberg and climate change.
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