THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
WESTSIDE COALITION
Education Awards
Each year, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Westside Coalition invites schools, churches, and youth groups to encourage their college freshmen and high school seniors to submit an essay, poem, or other creative work that exemplifies one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “Six Principles of Nonviolence." The awards are supported by endowments established in memory of local community activists and managed by the Santa Monica College Foundation.
All finalists will be recognized at the celebration on Monday, January 17, 2022, to be conducted via a Virtual Platform or In-Person Venue (as applicable), 9:00 am.
1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
3. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Nonviolence recognizes that evildoers are also victims.
4. Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform. Nonviolence willingly accepts the consequences to its acts.
5. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence resists violence to the spirit as well as the body. Nonviolence love is active, not passive. Nonviolence love does not sink to the level of the hater. Love restores community and resists injustice. Nonviolence recognizes the fact that all life is interrelated.
6. Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice. The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.
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Thank you in advance for your generosity.