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Bernard Lafayette is an activist who served as one of MLK’s chief lieutenants during the Civil Rights Movement. He was pivotal in organizing the Selma Voting Rights Movement. When Lafayette stopped to help a white man with car trouble one evening, he was beaten with a pipe almost to death. Lafayette repeatedly got up, wiped the stream of blood from his eyes to stare down his assailant with love, following his training in nonviolent direct action (NVDA). The theory behind NVDA is that unusual but genuine behavior has the potential to arrest the conscience of your assailant through a power that is transformative rather than destructive: love.
Bernard Lafayette is an activist who served as one of MLK’s chief lieutenants during the Civil Rights Movement. He was pivotal in organizing the Selma Voting Rights Movement. When Lafayette stopped to help a white man with car trouble one evening, he was beaten with a pipe almost to death. Lafayette repeatedly got up, wiped the stream of blood from his eyes to stare down his assailant with love, following his training in nonviolent direct action (NVDA). The theory behind NVDA is that unusual but genuine behavior has the potential to arrest the conscience of your assailant through a power that is transformative rather than destructive: love.
