Toyohiko Kagawa

1888 - 1960

Toyohiko Kagawa lived in the slums of Kobe, Japan. He organized unions among shipyard workers, factory workers and farmers. He founded the Anti-war League in Japan, and in 1940 was arrested after publicly apologising for the Japanese invasion of China. In 1941 he visited America in an attempt to avert war between Japan and the US.

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight."

"Love is the basis for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Violence is degeneracy; it is its own destruction. Love injures none, is eternal."

Source: Love - the Law of Life by Toyohiko Kagawa