Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
“Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the… — 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
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion.… — Anonymous 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
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,'… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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