International Non-Violence Day

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The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gandhi Jayanti.

In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had taken a proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teacher in Paris teaching international students to the World Social Forum in Bombay. The idea gradually attracted the interest of some leaders of India's Congress Party ("Ahimsa Finds Teen Voice", The Telegraph, Calcutta) until a Satyagraha Conference resolution in New Delhi in January 2007 initiated by Sonia Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu called upon the United Nations to adopt the idea.[citation needed]

On 15 June 2007 the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence. The resolution by the General Assembly asks all members of the UN system to commemorate 2 October in "an appropriate manner and disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness."

Quote from Ghandi
    "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
    "Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."
    "Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."
    "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."
    "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
    "Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."
    "Non-violence is the article of faith."
    "I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
    "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."
    "There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/international- ... ent-610406

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?N ... CzpCxY0_5w

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