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“King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...”

Empathy Gandhi Mlk

Book:A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Source: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

“...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK) "...If given a choice between violent resistance and passive acceptance, King and Gandhi both accepted violence..." "...like violence, it [non-violent resistance] was aggressive, but it was spiritually, bot physically, so." "...At the same time the mind and the emotions are active, actively trying to persuade the opponent to change his ways and convince him that he is mistaken and to lift him to a higher level of existence.”

Empathy Non Violence Gandhi Mlk

Book:A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Source: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.”

Depression Mental Illness Bi Polar

Book:A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Source: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness