Richard Gregg

Author

Richard Gregg

Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885–1974) was an American Quaker social philosopher said to be "the first American to develop a substantial theory of nonviolent resistance" based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and so influenced the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr., Aldous Huxley, civil-rights theorist Bayard Rustin, the pacifist and socialist reformer Jessie Wallace Hughan, and the Peace Pledge Union.

View all posts

Deliberately Organizing Your Life

"Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and outer condition. It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter,... Read more.

War Will End when People Grow Better

"To end war and violence means having a better world, but that is impossible unless the people in it grow better. No relationship is finer than the people who compose... Read more.