Nonviolent Quotes · Page 3

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.”

— Anonymous

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

— Steven Seagal

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they)…

— Joe Vitale

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a…

— Jenna Wortham

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent.…

— N. T. Wright

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression…

— Mahatma Gandhi

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…

— Stokely Carmichael

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody…

— Malcolm X

If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will…

— Ayya Khema

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

“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the…

— Gene Sharp

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

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when…

— Michael Hastings

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills…

— Dee Dee Myers

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has…

— Stanley Hauerwas

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

— Bill Moyers

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

— Gene Sharp

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

— Maynard Jackson

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

— Anthony Kiedis

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

— Linda Sarsour

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We need to rethink a system that has targeted young people, particularly young people of color, for nonviolent crimes.

— Brad Schneider

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

— Noam Chomsky

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr