Causes Quote by Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those…

— Cesar Chavez

...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more…

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are…

— Cesar Chavez

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness…

— 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

Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence.…

— Tim DeChristopher

Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize…

— Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma,…

— Lobsang Tenzin

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of…

— Mahatma Gandhi