Action Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself…

— Martin Luther King Jr

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as…

— Malcolm X

“Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to…

— Charles E. Cobb

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in…

— Henri Rousseau

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try…

— Martin Luther King Jr

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that…

— Howard Zinn

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter…

— James Baldwin