Nonviolence Quotes - Page 17

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Mean, Sacrifice

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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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Differences, Revolution, Events

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• Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

  Gary L. Francione

  Giving, Losing, Vegetarian

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• Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

  Betty Williams

  Strong, Weapons

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Law, Unjust

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Victory, Defeated

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• Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Order, Law

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• Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

  Martin Sheen

  Games, Justice, Long

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• Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secrecy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Oppressed, Oppressors

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Weakness, Difficult

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• Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Summit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Cowardice, Possession

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.92, A&C Black

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• True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hills

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.33, Rajpal & Sons

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• nonviolence first changes the individual.

  Coretta Scott King

  Firsts, Individual

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• Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Goes On, Profit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Feuds, Lessons

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• My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Stuff, Scientist, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Different, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Needs, Doe

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• Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Quality, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Female, Compromise, Symbols

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