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“Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.”
“Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.”
“Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time.”
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
“Nonviolence is the foundation of civilization, but first we must ask, what is nonviolence? No matter what my good friend Jesus said two thousand years ago, nonviolence doesn't mean nonresistance to evil, nonviolence means restraining evil without retaliating with further evil.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.”
“Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.”
“Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.”
“Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.”
“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.”
“Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.”
“Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.”
“Nonviolence requires great patience.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.”
“Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.”
Source: The Nonviolent Alternative
“Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.”
“Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.”
“nonviolence worked not because it melted the heart of the oppressor, but because people seized their social, political, and economic power, and refused to let business-as-usual continue until their demands were met.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.”
“Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”
“Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.”
Source: Collected Works
“Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.”
“nonviolent action succeeds twice as often as violent means, in a third of the amount of time, and with a fraction of the casualties.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”
Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
“Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.”
Source: We cannot live without our lives
“Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.”
“Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.”
“Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.”