Top Nonviolence Quotes

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

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 the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

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

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

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...

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...

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.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Suffering, though, can be nothing more than a sad and sorry thing without the presence on the part of the sufferer of a graceful heart, an accepting and open heart, a heart that holds no malice toward...

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?

[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...

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.