Defeated Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march,…

— Dolores Huerta

We must follow nonviolence and love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community.…

— 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

[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

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

— Martin Luther King, Jr