Nonviolence Quotes
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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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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.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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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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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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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.
