Ashoka rejected military conquest, adopting a policy he called " conquest by dharma" – a religious and moral law consisting of generosity, nonviolence, and truthfulness.
It's a strategy called " aggressive nonviolence." I'm curious to know whether you interact or have interacted much with whalers directly, and tried to understand their perspective.
And in terms of civil rights, it was Martin Luther King and that relationship with Gandhi and nonviolence, and that power of love was much more powerful than enmity or violence.
We talk to grade school students and high school students and college students to learn to embrace the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence, how to engage in nonviolent direct action.
I mean, after all, there’s plenty of violence in India’s past and in its heroic epics, but Gandhi managed to hearken back to a past that used nonviolence to bring change.
It was a lot of rigorous training to be prepared to be in those very stressful situations and maintain that commitment to nonviolence, and I don't think people appreciate how much work went into preparing people for that.