Matthew 5:38-42
An Eye for an Eye
38"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' 39 But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
When Dr. Martin Luther King started and was going about with the civil rights movement, he did it best in a non-violent way...This is the Christian Way, The Way of our LORD...And we know from Dr. King's experiences, it was a very, very difficult thing to do, especially when others who did not like the civil rights movement or were against it, were doing it in a violent and aggressive way toward his movement...Dr. King learned this from Jesus...
Author and former Priest, Brennan Manning says this about (and I relate it to the civil rights movement lead by Dr. King), “The Christian response to evil—to aggression—is resistance, of course, but nonviolent resistance, the resistance of love, prayer, and accepted suffering...When Christians do anything else, they have parted company with Jesus...Nonviolence is the expression of a faith that the greatest power in human history is the forward movement of love...Nonviolence is as realistic as Jesus himself, and it is one with the cross of Christ's victory over evil...The question of whether or not nonviolent resistance 'works' should be referred not so much to the gain of an immediate victory as to the transformation of history from within by the converging forces of love.”...