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Position Home > 2014 > “If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if your enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.” – Martin Luther King

“If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if your enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.” – Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr and Mahatma Gandhi stand as shining examples of the power of non-violent resistance to overcome profound injustice. The similarities in method between the two have oft been noted, as has the one’s influence on the other.

MLK realized that non-violent resistance only works if the group you are resisting possesses the ability to be shamed, embarrassed, guilted, or convicted into rethinking its treatment of you. But if your opponent is perfectly content to use your non-violence as an opportunity to send you by the millions to concentration camps, then another path is required….the path of Bonhoeffer.

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