Nonviolence Quotes - Page 20

• The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Beloved Community, Aftermath

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.38, Beacon Press

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• In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  God, Spiritual, Our World

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”

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• Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ocean, Mean, Compassion

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

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• Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Kings, Taught Us

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• ...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

  Coretta Scott King

  Peace, Determination, Healing

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• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Wisdom, Peace, Mean

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• ...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Wisdom, Believe, Humanity

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• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Lying, Men

  "The Doctrine Of The Sword". Young India, www.mkgandhi.org. August 11, 1920.

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• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

  Andrew Young

  Change, Achievement, Black History

  Andrew Young (1994). “A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Believe, Teaching

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• Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Army, Practice, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.65, Parallax Press

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