Pace e Bene – 2 April 2024

“Oftentimes, we wait until there’s a riot, or we wait until someone’s been killed, and then we ask, ‘Well, what can nonviolence do about it?’ And there’s a lot that nonviolence needs to do in response to it, but that’s almost like asking someone to wait until you’re in a fight to start learning about martial arts and self-defense. It’s a little late in the game. A lot of the work that we try to do is what we are doing in our communities every single day so that when these heightened moments happen, we’re already grounded.”—Kazu Haga