Nonviolence Quotes - Page 8

• I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Art, Rights, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

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• God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Blessed, Adoption

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Mean, Doe

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

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• I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Soldier, Enough

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, India, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Trying, Growing

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• Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

  Richard A. Falk

  Doe, Labels, Use

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.143, Rajpal & Sons

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• The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Pure

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• The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Common, Factors

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

  Joan Baez

  Kings, Reading, Thinking

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Nonviolence requires great patience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Great Patience

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

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• The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

  Coretta Scott King

  Years, Things Change, Process

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, World, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Mass

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• Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

  Coretta Scott King

  Jail, Years, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Demand, Small Parts

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.358, Tara Publishing

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• [The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Views, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Enemy, Herbs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Justice, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Language, Weak

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• Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Arms, Schemes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Achieve

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Staying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.130, Rajpal & Sons

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