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“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.”

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Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation