Action Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

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

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought -…

— Clarence Darrow

“Every passive resistant movement has at some point been forced either to deny itself or repudiate the state.”

— Clarence Marsh Case

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

— Alexandra Paul

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original…

— Alexander Hamilton

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for…

— Nelson Mandela

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

— William Kunstler

Pacifism only works for the protected.

— Rock Cowles

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is…

— Michel Foucault

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi