Non Violent Quotes - Page 3

• But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Moving, Eye

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Important, Tactics

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

  Sting

  Weed, War, Sacrifice

  "Let’s End the War on Drugs" by Sting, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Organization

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

  Dale J. Stephens

  Communication, Taken, Feedback

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• Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violent, Satyagraha, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.51, Rajpal & Sons

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• A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Resistance, Atrocities

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• The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

  Alveda King

  Justice, Victory, Movement

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Book, Teaching

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• I'm crazy about the fact that the Jewish people should survive because they have so much to contribute and so many values to contribute to the world. It would be a much better world, a much more peaceful and non-violent world if we lived by Jewish values.

  Jackie Mason

  Crazy, Jewish Values, People

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• I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

  Theresa May

  Simple, Views, Needs

  "'The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat, and I think it's important to us.'". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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• If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Peaceful, Degrees

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• If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Mean, Men

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• Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."

  Gabe Polsky

  Beautiful, Sports, People

  Source: collider.com

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• It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Wonder, Strategy

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• Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violent, Centralization, Structure

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Government, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.151, Penguin Books India

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• I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

  Mike DeWine

  Becoming, Illness, Violent

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• Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

  Julian Assange

  Direct Action, Cryptography, Violent

  "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet". Book by Julian Assange, November 2012.

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• If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

  Rick James

  Love, Peace, Eras

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• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  Sam Farr

  Acceptance, Government, People

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But...I'm a loving, spiritual person.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ass

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