James E. Bristol started working for the AFSC in 1947 after serving time in prison as a conscientious objector. He became director of the Quaker Center in New Deli in 1957 and accompanied the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King when they made their historic trip to India. In this booklet, published in 1972 James Bristol espouses on the concept of nonviolent change/revolution and how, in some modern situations adopting a nonviolent stance is not always a practical position for those who are being oppressed.