Humiliating Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Cesar Chavez

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

“Non-violence is called that when despite having the full power if someone does something to him, he does not do anything to that person.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— John Lewis

“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the…

— Bryan Sykes

“When you’re violent you undermine everything.”

— Chris Hedges