At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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![“[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7c/martin-luther-king-jr-127_approved_malcolm-x-had-said-a-great-deal-about-no_3056569.png)
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