Commitment Quote by Al Sharpton

“Gandhi is best remembered for his adherence to the principle of nonviolence; but no less important was his adherence to non-demonization. Even when he…

— Walter Truett Anderson

“...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must,…

— Nassir Ghaemi

“Nonviolence and nonaggression are generally regarded as interchangeable concepts - King and Gandhi frequently used them that way - but nonviolence, as employed by…

— Helen Prejean

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change…

— Edward James Olmos

“Violence is not only killing people. Violence is an attitude, an approach. Gandhi was trying to impose his ideology on his son. This is…

— Osho

“The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.”

— Arun Gandhi

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the…

— Barack Obama

Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought…

— Nicholson Baker

“Gandhi himself ultimately rejected the phrase “passive resistance,” which he associated with weakness, preferring satyagraha, the term he coined to mean “firmness in pursuit…

— Susan Cain

“When you think about nonviolence, you think of Gandhi—not an anonymous protestor in one of Gandhi’s marches who faced down riot clubs and guns,…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

— Malcolm X