Nonviolence Quotes
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.
