A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to
Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement
We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used
nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions
such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age
when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be
everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting
to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as
people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and
Václav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent
resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how
nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of
ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming
odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.