Action Quote by Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

— Hildegard Goss-Mayr

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

— 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

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

nonviolence first changes the individual.

— Coretta Scott King

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel