Truth Quote by Susan Cain

“Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the…

— Susan Cain

“violence only makes a situation worse. It cannot help but provoke a violent response. Strictly speaking, satyagraha is not “nonviolence.” It is a means,…

— Eknath Easwaran

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

— Al Sharpton

“...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must,…

— Nassir Ghaemi

“Nonviolence and nonaggression are generally regarded as interchangeable concepts - King and Gandhi frequently used them that way - but nonviolence, as employed by…

— Helen Prejean

[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

“Gandhi is best remembered for his adherence to the principle of nonviolence; but no less important was his adherence to non-demonization. Even when he…

— Walter Truett Anderson

“Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have…

— Albert Einstein

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao