Waking Jonah

In the audio clip below, James Corbett introduces an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, in which King declares that “right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant“.

Although not included in the audio clip itself, I found the following excerpt from his speech to be equally compelling:

“Therefore, I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize. After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time–the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.”

“Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech – Dec. 10, 1964)

Show: The Corbett Report
Full Podcast: Episode #108 – Peace Prizes for Warmongers
Date: 11/15/09
Host: James Corbett
Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Date: December 10, 1964
Location: Oslo, Norway
Excerpt: “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

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James Corbett and Webster Tarpley discuss false flag terrorism and the current state of the 9/11 Truth and Anti-War movements…

Show: The Corbett Report
Full Podcast: Episode #108 – Peace Prizes for Warmongers
Date: 11/15/09
Host: James Corbett
Topics: Peace is not a strategy, it’s an end in itself; It will never be accomplished by any amount of violence or killing; We must utterly destroy the precepts for war that we are always fed; More and more people will not believe the next time a false flag terrorist incident is pulled off to justify another war; Webster Tarpley: The 9/11 Truth movement and the Anti-War movement were artificially separated; Left liberals refused to entertain “conspiracy theories”, so they never looked at the 9/11 attacks, which is what Bush and Cheney cited for everything they did; The 9/11 Truth movement always tried to merge with the Anti-War movement; With the coming of Obama, the left-liberal foundation-funded Anti-War movement has gone away… they’ve quit; They are no longer interested in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

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James Corbett discusses the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the nonviolent, grass-roots effort that propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement into the public consciousness.

Show: The Corbett Report
Full Podcast: Episode #107 – Lessons in Resistance: Non-compliance
Date: 11/8/09
Host: James Corbett
Topics: Rosa Parks lost her case and was convicted of violating the segregated seating laws; Black leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) as an extension of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and elected Martin Luther King, Jr. as its president; King gave a speech at a church that sparked the black residents’ collective outrage into a grass-roots movement that sustained the boycott; The bus boycott followed King’s credo of nonviolent resistance; On February 1st, 1956, the MIA filed a federal suit against bus segregation in the names of 4 black women; In June a federal court ruled segregated seating unconstitutional–it was appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld the ruling; On December 20th, 1956, when the federal ruling took effect, an integrated group of bus boycott supporters (including King) rode the city buses; The Montgomery Bus Boycott had implications that reached far beyond the desegregation of public buses; The protest propelled the civil rights movement into national consciousness, and Martin Luther King, Jr. into the public eye; In the words of King: “We have gained a new sense of dignity and destiny. We have discovered a new and powerful weapon… nonviolent resistance.”

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I found this clip from the movie “Gandhi” to be quite instructive, as I believe the principle of nonviolent resistance can be strongly supported from a biblical perspective.

Is there a lesson here that modern American evangelicals seem to have missed in the pages of Scripture?

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Show: The Corbett Report
Full Podcast: Episode #107 – Lessons in Resistance: Non-compliance
Date: 11/8/09
Host: James Corbett
Topics: Mahatma Gandhi and peaceful non-compliance (nonviolent resistance); The 1982 Richard Attenborough movie “Gandhi”

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