Quotes About Nonviolence

Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

For peace, let us teach the humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence. We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

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

Nonviolence, as a theory of social and political demeanor concerning American Negroes, means simply a continuation of the status quo.

Christianity's job, in the words of George Fox, is to live in the "power, life, light, seed and wisdom, by which we may take away the occasion of wars.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

Gandhi's strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them.

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.