Nonviolence Quotes - Page 14

• Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Peace, Humans, Absolutes

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• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Opponents, Violence

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• I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Future, Believe, Heart

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Leader, Movement

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  People, Evil, Energy

  "WOF: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan".

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• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Beloved Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Long, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Kings, Moving, Demand

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• I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

  Malcolm X

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Talking

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• As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Self, Expression

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• Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Naked, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

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• The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

  Joan Baez

  Strong

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Mother, Philosophy, I Have Learned

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Enemy, Able, Persons

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• As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

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• The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Symbols

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• The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Symbols, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

  Julia Bacha

  Two, Different, Violence

  "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.

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• The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Symbols

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.

  Marva Dawn

  Peace, Military, War

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• When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Mean, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.67, A&C Black

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