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attitudinal change and would be instrumental in restoring peace, harmony and accommodation in the relations among humans and between humans of other living beings and elements of Nature.
It is in this context that the great Jain Monk Acharya Sushil Kumarji has launched here in Rio de Janeiro at this Earth Summit, a World Movement of Non-violence. I call upon this distinguished assembly of men and women of experience and wisdom to endorse the proposal so that on a global basis a worldwide culture of nonviolence could begin to inspire our thoughts, actions and expressions.
“Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and the commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai”.
-Leo Tolstoy
Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner
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