All time Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

[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

“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time,…

— Gene Sharp

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

— Thomas Jefferson

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their…

— Julia Bacha

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

The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love,…

— Liu Xia

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If…

— Jeff Cooper