Action Quote by Barbara Deming

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

— Malcolm X

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

— John Lewis

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be…

— Petra Kelly

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse…

— Barbara Deming

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

— Ayn Rand

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg