Alternatives Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be…

— Richard Attenborough

“Violence is not only killing people. Violence is an attitude, an approach. Gandhi was trying to impose his ideology on his son. This is…

— Osho

“Gandhi is best remembered for his adherence to the principle of nonviolence; but no less important was his adherence to non-demonization. Even when he…

— Walter Truett Anderson

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

— Al Sharpton

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

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

— 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

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff…

— Mahatma Gandhi