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In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries… — Walter Wink
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned… — Jesse Jackson
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now,… — Mairead Corrigan
We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help… — Mairead Corrigan
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom. — Janine di Giovanni
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience. — Julia Bacha
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. — Andrew Young
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in… — Joan Baez
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world… — Stanley Hauerwas
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of… — Stanley Hauerwas
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. — June Jordan
I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female… — Yingluck Shinawatra
The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures, austerity, honesty; Nonviolence,… — Bhagavad Gita
Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we… — Nelson Mandela
There are times when you should do as Jesus would do and turn the other cheek, while there are other times that call for doing… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler
This kid I know,He said ''Yoh-Jasmine,You look beautiful'' Which I had no response too. Everytime I see him he said''yoh,jasmine'' after we stop talking he… — Jazzy
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. — Chinese Proverbs
Violence is never THE answer, first its words, then violence, then Fire, and lastly hide the body. — Unknown Author
I promote peace and positivity. — Unknown Author
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives. — James Douglas
The evil the enemy may do never expresses all that he is. Nonviolence is a wager-- not so much on the goodness of humanity-- as… — Robert Inchausti

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