Hungry Heart: A Woman's Fast for Justice by Zoe Ann Nicholson

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• Forewords & Introductions

Forewords & Introductions

Yet, The Hungry Heart is still more, much more, than one woman's account of dramatic historical events and movements. It takes its place alongside other works on the philosophy of non-violence - - memoirs of the British and U.S. suffrage movements, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Delores Huerta and [insert Burmese Nobel laureate's name]. Interestingly, Nicholson's reminiscences bring us full circle and reveal the woman's movement as the beginning and the end. The non-violent protests of the British suffrage women observed by Gandhi when in England inspired his campaign of civil disobedience in South Africa and, later, the practice of satyagraha in India. Gandhi's philosophy and actions, in turn, influenced King and the post World War II Civil Rights movement. And historian's agree that the movement to end racial segregation served as the model for the non-violent campaigns of every progressive cause which followed in the 1960's and 70's, including the Women's Fast for Justice.