Thematic Literary Inquiry:
Peace Studies and Non-Violence
"Popular revolt against materially strong rulers ... may engender an almost irresistible power even if it foregoes the use of violence in the face of materially vastly superior forces. To call this 'passive resistance' is certainly and ironic idea; it is one of the most active and efficient ways of action ever devised, because it cannot be countered by fighting, where there may be defeat or victory, but only by mass slaughter in which even the victor is defeated, cheated of his prize, since nobody can rule over dead men."
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Gandhi - Satyagraha in South Africa excerpts
Gandhi - Autobiographical excerpts from My Experiments With Truth
Excerpts from Gandhi's writings on Non-Violence
Martin Luther King - excerpts from his speeches
Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You
Scholasticism and the question of whether war can be just
St. Augustine and "Just War Theory"
Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt