Full Circle Peace

09/16/2026

"Palestine is presently home to the most child amputees in the world." It is painful to hear, yet it is a reality.

An Interfaith Action for Palestine: The Power of Grief, Communal Solidarity, and Entering the Kōan of Compassionate Action

12/31/2025

Dear friends,In recent weeks, practitioners have alerted us to the existence of YouTube accounts that misuse Thich Nhat Hanh’s voice (AI generated),

12/02/2025

This is one of the most honest descriptions of our country that I’ve ever heard

08/15/2025

“If I use Nonviolent Communication to liberate people to be less depressed, to get along better with their family, but not teach them, at the same time, to use their energy to rapidly transform systems in the world, then I am part of the problem. I am essentially calming people down, making them happier to live in the systems as they are, so I am using NVC as a narcotic.”
Marshall Rosenberg, PhD
Social Justice Retreat in Switzerland, June 2005

Art by James Shirey (available at Mud Gallery

03/26/2025

https://fcdlibrary.libnet.info/event/12940693

LGBTQ+ education with the Rainbow Alliance of Fairfield County

01/20/2025

Streaming HERE TODAY, 9am ET. Start with Dr. Bernice A. King and . Be inspired, encouraged, and galvanized by the 2025 , Jr. Beloved Community Commemorative Service.

01/20/2025

🗣️📕 ✍🏽 A list of speeches and sermons in which he courageously speaks truth; shares about Kingian nonviolence; and expounds on issues of injustice and what our righteous, rigorous response should be. Relevant. Revelatory. Revolutionary.

1. ‘The Other America.’ Full speech: https://youtu.be/dOWDtDUKz-U?si=yzHNbyA2bZiJBq-F​​

“It's more difficult today because we are struggling now for genuine equality. And it's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job.” From ‘The Other America.”

2. “Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.” Acceptance Speech

Full speech: https://youtu.be/az8VvmcgNpE

3. “This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man's chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man's ethical infantilism.” From ’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, ‘The Quest for Peace and Justice’

Full speech: https://youtu.be/CzMFOljSYIk

4. From ‘Paul’s Letter to American Christians’:

“Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Full speech: https://youtu.be/7p5iOhXumaQ

5. in 1967, but he could be talking about today: “And so the collision course is set. The people cry for freedom and the congress attempts to legislate repression.” From ‘The Three Evils of Society.’

Full speech: https://youtu.be/6sT9Hjh0cHM

6. ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.’ Please spend some time with it. “If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.”

Full speech: https://youtu.be/AJhgXKGldUk

7. : https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html