Love as a Weapon?

During the Second World War,  a Norwegian Pastor was called in for interrogation by the Gestapo for helping Jews. Before the questioning began, the Gestapo chief took his gun out of the holster and placed it on the table between them. Without a moment’s hesitation, the pastor reached into his pocket, pulled out his Bible and placed it right next to the German Luger. “Why did you do that?” the Gestapo chief demanded angrily. The pastor quietly replied, “You put your weapon out on the table, so have I.”

Segregation to Integration

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake’s order to vacate a row of four seats in the coloured section in favour of a white passenger, once the white section was filled. She was subsequently arrested for civil disobedience in violating Alabama’s segregation laws.
Four days later, a peaceful protest was organised and a call was made to refuse to ride the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott was meant to last one day, but went on for a whole year. It finally ended on December 20, 1956, the day federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect. This ruling led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
And who was the man behind this successful protest? A young man by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inequality to Equality 

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organised a peaceful march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. Famously led by a New York City labor lawyer, Inez Milholland, riding on a white horse, it became one of the most monumental events in granting the right for women to vote. Seven years after this peaceful parade first took place, on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment. Two weeks later, the Senate followed.