Nonviolence Quotes
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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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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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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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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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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[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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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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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 the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.
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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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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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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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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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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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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.