Quotes About Nonviolence

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

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.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Violence is not the way.

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I will not resort to violence, I will not degrade myself with hatred. I will return good for evil, I will love my enemies. Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work.

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.

Love your enemies," said Jesus, which, of course, means "have no enemies.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

let your verdict be so emphatic it will circle the globe as a reminder to all men everywhere that force of any kind has no place in this world, including the world of business.

Nothing's Better, from a world of peace, no need for weapons, they only cause decease, why would we kill one another, we're all humans, simply sisters and brothers .

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though.

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

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.

I do not condone the use of violence.