“ King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks. Howard Zinn
“ Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ 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… David T. Dellinger
“ Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mahatma Gandhi
“ 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. James H. Cone
“ 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… Tom Robbins
“ 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… Mary Jo Bowman
“ Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope. Robert S. Graetz
“ We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence. Debasish Mridha
“ 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? Colman McCarthy
“ 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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evi… Martin Luther King, Jr.
