Joan Baez Quotes About Nonviolence

Quotes about: Nonviolence

• I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Soldier, Mind

• Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

  Joan Baez

  Violence, Bigger, Flopping

• The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Strong, Men

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

• That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Humanity, Nonviolent Communication

  "What would you do if…?". Interview, silouanthompson.net. March 16, 2011.

• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Suffering, Sorrow

• The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

  Joan Baez

  Intelligent, Practice, Quality

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

  Joan Baez

  Strong, Nonviolence

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

• 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.

• The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Organization, Violence

  Daybreak (1968)

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