King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks.
For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Commitment to nonviolence must not be based on patient acquiescence in intolerable conditions. Rather, it stems from a deeper knowledge of the self-defeating, self-corrupting effect of lapses into vio...
For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, we...
For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.
The more I allow myself to face that truth about my participation in a violent world, the more my faith and my intellect call me to humility and compassion rather than to doctrinaire ethics. I cannot...
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.
I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.
We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life—love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire-hoses that tore off their clothe...