Editing Peace (section)

===Satyagraha===
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[[File:Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a civil rights march on Washington D.C. in 1963.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Martin Luther King Jr.]], president of the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]], and Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, at a civil rights march on Washington, D.C.]]
Satyagraha is a philosophy and practice of [[nonviolent resistance]] developed by [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]. He deployed satyagraha techniques in campaigns for [[Indian independence movement|Indian independence]] and also during his earlier struggles in [[South Africa]].

The word ''satyagraha'' itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ''[[Indian Opinion]]'', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict. According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi (presumably no relation), who submitted the entry 'sadagraha', which Gandhi then modified to 'satyagraha'. Etymologically, this Hindic word means 'truth-firmness', and is commonly translated as 'steadfastness in the truth' or 'truth-force'.

Satyagraha theory also influenced [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [[James Bevel]], and others during the campaigns they led during the [[civil rights movement]] in the United States. The theory of satyagraha sees means and ends as inseparable. Therefore, it is contradictory to try to use violence to obtain peace. As Gandhi wrote: "They say, 'means are, after all, means'. I would say, 'means are, after all, everything'. As the means so the end..."<ref>{{citation|editor-first1=R.K.|editor-last1=Prabhu|editor-first2=U.R.|editor-last2=Rao|chapter-url=https://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap45.htm|chapter=The Gospel Of Sarvodaya|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927001300/http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap45.htm |archive-date=27 September 2011|title=The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi|location=Ahemadabad, India|edition=Revised|year=1967}}</ref> A quote sometimes attributed to Gandhi, but also to [[A. J. Muste]], sums it up: "There is no way to peace; peace is the way".{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}