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International Peace Day 2025
Mayor Jacob Frey is joined by members of Twin Cities Nonviolent and the public (photo credit-Sarah Whiting)
December 2025
“To practice nonviolence, first of all we have to practice it within ourselves.”
“All violence begins with the personal, with the I, and with a point of decision, a crossing of a line, where each of us chooses momentarily to view another living being as an It rather than a Thou. The ultimate purpose of each act of violence, each reduction of another person from a Thou to an It, is to control the other. . . . Our choices matter, even on what seems like a small scale. They have resonance in the universe. When we truly see another person or living being as a Thou, we cannot dominate or control them. We then must enter into a different kind of covenant, where power is shared.”
—Pamela Cooper-White, The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church’s Response
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