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Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all. — Gary L. Francione
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings… — Gary L. Francione
I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics. — Jerry Vlasak
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. — Mahatma Gandhi
He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this… — Leo Buscaglia
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power… — Morihei Ueshiba
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence.… — Unknown Author
What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find… — Hizkias Assefa
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES… — Unknown Author
We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world… — Shirin Ebadi
Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people. — Arun Manilal Gandhi
So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled… — Mahatma Gandhi
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative. — Jesse Jackson
The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed… — Jesse Jackson
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means… — Petra Kelly
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy. — Mairead Corrigan
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence. — Colman McCarthy
I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also… — Rigoberta Menchu

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