Nonviolence Quotes - Page 6

• We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Police Violence, Discipline

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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• I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Believe, Cost

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “The Dawn of Freedom”

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• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Impossible, Seems

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• We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Discovery, Fields

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

  Walter Wink

  Ignorant, Tragedy, Church

  "Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination". Book by Walter Wink (pp. 254-256), 1992.

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• The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Lines, Action

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• It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Moral, Fortitude

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Play, Fields, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Decision, Fearless, Challenges

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• Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Mets

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Miracle, Velocity, Active

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.311, Grove Press

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• For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Violence

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• Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Negative, Satya

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• Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Violence, Heat

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• Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Harbinger

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• Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Independence, Ends

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• Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Soldier

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• Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kings, Men, White

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Brave, Path

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.154, Rajpal & Sons

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• My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Optimism, World, Way

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• The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Proportion, Being At Peace

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• Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Numbers, Bravery

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• Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Excellence, Active

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• Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.

  Carol Lee Flinders

  Thinking, Long, People

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