Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
Violence is never THE answer, first its words, then violence, then Fire, and lastly hide the body. — Alexandria Anderson Copy Share Image
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons… — Howard Zinn 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
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we… — Mel Duncan Copy Share Image
“As long as the hope was fulfilled there was little questioning of nonviolence. But when the hopes were blasted, when people came… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along,… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. — Tenzin Gyatso Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.” — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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