A Quote by Cesar Chavez
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth.
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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