Nonviolence Quotes
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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.
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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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Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
