Nonviolent Quotes

126 quotes by 70 authors

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not… — Stokely Carmichael
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way. — Jimmy Carter
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. — Hillary Clinton
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle… — Cesar Chavez
I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures… — Mairead Corrigan
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.… — Nhat Hanh
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. — Mahatma Gandhi
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A J Muste
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but… — Marianne Williamson
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see… — Elise M. Boulding
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves.… — Tim DeChristopher
I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town,… — Larry Klayman
If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.… — Ayya Khema
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent… — Eddie Vedder
Dr. Kingâ€™s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are… — Stokely Carmichael
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm… — Malcolm X

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