Very often people object that nonviolence seems to imply passive acceptance of injustice and evil and therefore that it is a kind of cooperation with evil. Not at all. The genuine concept of nonviolence implies not only active and effective resistance to evil but in fact a more effective resistance...
But the resistance which is taught in the Gospel is aimed not at the evil-doer but at evil in its source.
- Thomas Merton
as quoted on God's Politics
http://tinyurl.com/2je72t
