Top Nonviolence Quotes

The female warrior knows how to fight without violence. She knows when not to raise her sword, but instead hold up her heart. Her shield is not a defense against others but a shelter for all.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its cons...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sex...

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

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 moveme...

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-viol...

Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.

I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as recognition, a more profound recognition, that the nonviolent way, the American Negro's way, was th...

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and the bee; as do other sentient bei...

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your su...

King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks.

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.