Quotes About Nonviolence

nothing trite in SNCC's founding statement: "Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice, hope ends despair. Peace dominates war, faith reconciles doubt.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks.

I ain't gonna kill; it's against my will. . . .

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China.

Against defenders, often the best tactic is to sheathe your weapon and refuse the game.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Non è mai giusto colpire altre persone o causare loro del dolore.

You put the fist in pacifist?

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

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

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.