Catholic Commission for Social Justice
“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.” (Nelson Mandela)
I was driving to Port of Spain on Saturday morning (February 11), when I heard the news on the radio about the gruesome murder of 15-year-old Abiela Adams, a student of the Signal Hill Secondary School in Tobago, who was discovered in a pile of garbage in Courland with her throat slit.
“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man” – Mahatma Gandhi.
The world observes International Day of Non-Violence today (October 2). The 2007 UN resolution which established this commemoration, on Gandhi’s birthday, reaffirms “the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence” and the desire “to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence”.