Action Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

— Nikki Giovanni

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

— Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

nonviolence first changes the individual.

— Coretta Scott King

“Commitment to nonviolence must not be based on patient acquiescence in intolerable conditions. Rather, it stems from a deeper knowledge of the self-defeating, self-corrupting…

— David T. Dellinger

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

— Barbara Deming

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if…

— Coretta Scott King

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed