All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence…the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.
I admit that when I think of global poverty, my mind begins to spin, and discouragement begins to seep into my spirit. Like all complex issues, global poverty is a tangled web of generational and systemic challenges that have compounded over time.
“For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.” —Exodus 18:18
In my unconscious mind, the phrase social justice evokes one image only: me on a street somewhere, with lots of others, carrying placards and shouting words that rhyme.
