...listen to the whisperings of hope...
...listen to the whisperings of hope...
As New Zealand Quakers have said, ‘Refusal to fight with weapons [or to support such fighting] is not surrender.
We are not passive when threatened by the greedy, the cruel, the tyrant, the unjust. We will struggle to remove the causes of impasse and confrontation by every means of non-violent resistance available. We call for a commitment to make the building of peace a priority and to make opposition to war absolute...
Let us reject the clamour of fear and listen to the whisperings of hope.’
from
Pacifism Not Passivism
by Stephanie Dowrick, Sydney Regional Meeting
First appeared in Good Weekend Magazine
The Australian Friend May 2003