“Anger can be subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be overcome only by nonviolence.”
-- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.”
-- Bernard Haring
“The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.”
-- James Douglass
“Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.”
-- Joan Baez
“Man has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.”
-- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.”
-- Mohandas Gandhi
“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong”
-- Mohandas Gandhi
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
-- 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
“Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.”
-- Indian Proverb
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.
-- Daniel Berrigan
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak … Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win."
-- Cesar Chavez
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
-- Barbara Deming
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ALL other living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas Edison
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
-- Jesse Jackson
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."
-- Andrew Young
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.
-- Howard Zinn
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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