I see nonviolence as a way of life. I don't see it as a tool, a strategy, or something to impose, but rather courageous principles and practices that ask us to take responsibility to change how we show up with each other across differences and conflict. Our culture is a war culture, yet our culture is not just that, depending on what we choose to see and build in our own hearts, our homes, our neighborhoods and society at large.

If we can't even talk or communicate with each other, if we aren't working towards a principled struggle grounded in a shared vision of love, possibility, peace, human goodness, etc, how would we even collectively wake up to these domination systems that seek to divide and control us?