Gentleness Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Cesar Chavez

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

— Cesar Chavez

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— John Lewis

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

...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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

— A. Philip Randolph

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter…

— Lord Chesterfield

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

— Mahatma Gandhi