Members - The Gandhi-King Community

Members - The Gandhi-King Community

http://gandhiking.ning.com/profile/LeslynWong

May 25, 2009
From Charleen Touchette
New Mexico Coordinator Realizing the Dream

_Santa Fe, New Mexico -

_ ---Leslyn Wong who does such good work at Realizing the Dream Inc sent this link to The Ghandi-King Community.

Please consider joining this group dedicated to "Continuing a tradition of nonviolent transformation inspired by the ideas of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. " Dr. Martin Luther Jr

"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit." Mohandas K. Ghandi

"Peace, is not only the goal, it is also the way." Martin Luther King III in a Jun2 1007 speech to Israeli Knesset.

"If there is to be peace in the world,There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,There must be peace in the heart."
Lao-Tse - 6th century bce

The words of Dr. King Jr., Ghandi , Lao-Tse and Martin Luther King III echo the teachings of indigenous elders throughout the Americas.

Lakotah elder Black Elk said "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

Work for justice. It is the path to peace.