Action Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those…

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

— Cesar Chavez

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

— Cesar Chavez

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

...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

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

— John Lewis

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral…

— Cesar Chavez

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