Active Nonviolence Across the World

invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ” Looking back over the past century, especially since the movements Gandhi and King led, we see the growing influence and impact of nonviolence as an idea whose time has come. Mohandas Gandhi pioneered in developing the philosophy and practice of nonviolence. On the vast subcontinent of India, he led a colonial people to freedom through satyagraha, or soul force, defeating the greatest empire on earth, the British Raj. Not long after Gandhi’s death, Martin Luther King, Jr. found in the Mahatma’s philosophy the key he was searching for to move individualistic religion to a socially dynamic religious philosophy