The beauty of martial arts is to deflect a force without spending much energy.

When 2 forces collide, the stronger one will prevail.
Physics 101.

That is why most value force, strength to overcome an issue. Nevertheless, the stronger force will be diminished as well.
In human terms, there will be damages in both sides.

“Non-violence” is resistance. Since it is resistance, it will receive damage.
That has been the teaching in history.
Gandhi and Luther King applied non-violence as a form of resistance. The result is that there is still people fighting for their “freedom” or a better way to live or not being discriminated against.

Gandhi and Luther King were both assassinated.
Cause and Effect.
Many people lost their lives through that “non-violent resistance.”

Gandhi was disappointed once the British left India for religious wars were taking place among “his people.”
In India, fights are not about the “color of the skin” but it is all about religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_conflicts_in_India

Paradoxically, India is known for its tolerance of faiths… 🙂

In the USA as well as many Western countries, the “color of the skin” has much importance even nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States#Contemporary_issues_in_American_racism

Even though the issues haven’t been resolved, those issues seem to be “better” that is, more “tolerable.”

Tolerance is not a virtue. It is self-deception.

Perhaps another “non-violent resistance” is needed?

It is not a matter of “doing” something. It is a matter of collective consciousness.

Some “maverick” individual has always influenced collective consciousness. It just takes time to “catch on.”

Humans are unwilling to learn from the lessons of Nature… or even history. Individuals who are concerned with the well-being of “their people” are unable to perceive the Oneness of all.

Courage is not just a display of our views into the world with the willingness to “fight for that,” to resist.

Courage is about-facing our own fears. To take a closer look to our own beliefs, to dismantle them and then to act when the time is right.
To wait for the right time, takes courage. 🙂
A “good idea” is only “good” at a particular time.

Change will happen for life is change.

In history everyone will defend their own group however we want to divide it:
A color or “non-color” person will speak up for their group. A religious head, will do the same to defend the interest of their dogma. A political brain will act in the same way hoping that the masses will pick “right” rather than “left” because they are “right” and the others “wrong.”

Those defenders will get “peace” prizes.
Those defenders will get kill when violence and death was experienced by followers.
When they are dead, they need to be remembered.
Worship time.
That is the history of resistance in a nutshell.

There is nothing extraordinary in defending your own group. Extraordinary is to live without the separation of groups, of limits… into Oneness… and that is natural.

Nevertheless, things change all by itself: A thunderstorm goes away by itself. The “great flood” lasted for 40 days.
When the collective consciousness moves to a different state, then all of a sudden, a “crazy idea” becomes a “great idea.”
A maverick… becomes the “new savior.” 🙂