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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.
Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.
If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.