Action Quote by Cesar Chavez

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

— John Lewis

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

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

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

— Gene Sharp

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Jerry Vlasak