Nonviolence Quotes - Page 19

• Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Submission, Penalties

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defence, Property, Recklessness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, World, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rocks, Structure, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Darkness, Construction

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• I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lips, Courses, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Contagious, My Thoughts, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Virtue, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

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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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• For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creeds, Companion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.113, Penguin Books India

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• Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Winning, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Peace, War

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Peace, Animal, Rights

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• We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It won�t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus.

  Thomas Gumbleton

  Jesus, Peace, Heart

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• The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, War, Greatness

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• If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Inspirational, Peace, Future

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

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• Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Kings, Heart, Order

  YouTube Channel "StefaniaStudio"/"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975", www.youtube.com. March 23, 2011.

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• The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Healing, Past

  Marianne Williamson (1997). “The Healing of America”

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Principles, Violence, Preaching

  Herbert Marcuse (2004). “The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.62, Routledge

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• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Struggle, Love Is

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• It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

  Bernhard Haring

  Peace, Self Worth, Feelings

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• Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Creating, Justice

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Choices, Today

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• A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

  Barbara Deming

  Strength, Movement, Liberation

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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