Question 10 of 22
Excerpt from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Statement of Purpose, 1960
Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice; hope ends despair. Peace dominates war; faith reconciles doubt. Mutual regard cancels enmity. Justice for all overthrows injustice. The redemptive community supersedes systems of gross social immorality.
Love is the central motif of nonviolence. Love is the force by which God binds man to Himself and man to man. Such love goes to the extreme; it remains loving and forgiving even in the midst of hostility. It matches the capacity of evil to inflict suffering with an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while persisting in love.
By appealing to conscience and standing on the moral nature of human existence, nonviolence nurtures the atmosphere in which reconciliation and justice become actual possibilities.
Use the excerpt from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's statement of purpose to answer the question.
Which of the following social movements of the 1960s and 70s would MOST agree with the sentiments expressed in this excerpt?
A.
the black power movement
B.
the anti-war movement
C.
the women’s movement
D.
the free speech movement