Assistance Quote by Cesar Chavez

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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 is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

— Nikki Giovanni

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles…

— John Dear

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

— Gene Sharp