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“It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.”

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Author:Mamata Banerjee

“Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.”

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Author:Julia Bacha

“The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.”

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Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.”

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Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.”

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Book:No Easy Walk to Freedom

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom

“I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“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.:

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

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Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“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

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