Nonviolence Quotes
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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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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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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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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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.
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best.
