Nonviolence Quotes - Page 8

• Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

  Johan Galtung

  Creativity, Empathy, Conflict

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• When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Common Humanity, Feelings, Needs

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• I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

  Jesse Jackson

  Alternatives

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

  Petra Kelly

  Determination, Mean, Self

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• We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Real, Democracy, Needs

  "The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland".

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• Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

  Colman McCarthy

  War, Fighting, Fire

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• I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  War, Mean, Thinking

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• This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Time, Fire, Oil

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• Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

  Miroslav Volf

  Way, Violence, Hospitality

  Miroslav Volf (2011). “A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good”, p.47, Brazos Press

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• It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Choices, World, Today

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

  Amit Ray

  War, Men, Brave

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Grateful, Church

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.97, Beacon Press

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• I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Humanity, Destruction

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Spiritual, Powerful, Animal

  FaceBook post by Gabriel Cousens, MD from Oct 07, 2015

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• The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Force, Ahimsa, Unarmed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Order, Punishment

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  People, Evil, Energy

  "WOF: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan".

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• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Beloved Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Mean, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.67, A&C Black

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• The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Way, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

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• Veganism is about nonviolence:
  nonviolence to other sentient beings;
  nonviolence to yourself;
  nonviolence to the earth.

  Gary L. Francione

  Earth, Sentient Beings, Veganism

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Victory

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• Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Justice, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Understanding, Used, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.310, Grove Press

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