Black people Quote by Charles E. Cobb

“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged us toward…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter…

— James Baldwin

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

— Anonymous

“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”

— Mary Jo Bowman

“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but…

— Freeman Dyson

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

— Betty Williams

“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.”

— David T. Dellinger

“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that…

— Howard Zinn

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching…

— Jesse Jackson