Quotes About Nonviolent

Of this I am at least sure: Hope is nonviolent resistance, rebellion, and revolution. It has always been so, though never hast the lesson been so forcefully taught. And this is hopeful.

The revolution of blood is a necessary historical process.' The people who say that it is NOT inevitable are the only ones who, to my mind, understand revolution. In other words, the only ones who understand revolution are the ones who say that a nonviolent revolution is possible.

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500 000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

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.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

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.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

It is a great victory that comes without blood.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Jessie Lorenz talked with her friend Herb Levine about his involvement in the 1977 504 sit-ins—the longest nonviolent occupation of a federal building. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was a federal law that outlawed discrimination based on disability in any program or activity receiving federal funding.

I cannot think of a tactical alliance with the Left because I represent the idea that there is a peaceful, nonviolent way to dislodge a dictatorship... A tactical Left alliance damages my argument. If I succeed with them, we will never know if peace can really produce freedom.

nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for the better. Chenoweth

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.