wings of the movement and expressed the concept of " civilization of tenderness"''''': " Active non-violence is not merely pacifism, it is something different. I started reading Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Don Milani, Mazzolari and they helped me to realize it had been Jesus of Nazareth who first practised non violence, the same non violence that was crushed by the Roman imperialism, in Galilee. I'd like to beg of you, with all my heart, to find the courage for such a radical choice: non-violence. The present system is naturally violent. We have to build a non violent system, a 'civilization of tenderness'." See also Streetwise priest External links Nigrizia (http://www.nigrizia.it/) Beati i costruttori di pace (http://www.beati.org/) rete Lilliput (https://web.archive.org/web/20021221115656/http://www.retelilliput.net/) A biography on Liber Liber and his free e-book Sulle strade di Pasqua 1938 births Living people Italian anti-poverty advocates Italian Christian pacifists Italian Roman Catholic missionaries 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Italian socialists Catholic socialists Roman Catholic missionaries in South Sudan Italian expatriates in South Sudan