People who used non-violence to resolve conflicts

Základná škola Svätej Rodiny

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Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a wayto live together in peace.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

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They have deprived people of their freedom, and tried to force them to do in the way they wanted them

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The life in Czechoslovakia duringthe era of Socialismwas very complicatedand difficult

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People didn´t like this life, they fought againstthe system – but they didn´t use violence

Illegal meetings in churches, smuggling of religious literature

Establishment of ,,Secret Church“ in Czechoslovakia - printing and distribution of religious literature, secret consecrations of new priests

The most famous act of ,,Secret Church“ in Czechoslovakia was ,,Candle demonstration“ in Bratislava

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Candle Demonstration

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,,Candle demonstration“was held at

Hviezdoslav square on 25th March1988

It was organised by: Ján Čarnogurský, VladimírJukl, František Mikloško

It was the first public expression of resistance

There were more than 2000 people

The crowd of people was praying in peace, in spite of that the police attacked the people, plenty of them were arrested

The whole world was informed by BBC, The voice of America and other TV channels all over the world

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• People jingled the keys and waved the flags

• The leaders of the Velvet revolution from podium declaimed the requests of people and criticised the Socialist regime

• Most known leaders of the Velvet revolution : Milan Kňažko, Ján Budaj, Václav Havel

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That is the history of Slovakia and an exampleof how to fight against violence without usingit and eventually reach what we were fightingfor. There can be many obstacles but we haveto be stubborn and go on till we reach ourgoals.

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Thank you for yourattention

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