Adversity Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to harm anyone…

— Arun Gandhi

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

— Gene Sharp

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

— Vijay Prashad

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires…

— 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

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and…

— Thomas Merton

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

— Anonymous