Nonviolence Quotes - Page 3

• All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

  Eliot Engel

  Gratitude, Kings, Commitment

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• So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

  Satish Kumar

  Age, Nine, Kind

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• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Passivity Is, Social Transformation

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Law, Women Empowerment

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Suffering, Technique

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• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Work, Long, Violence

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Children, Mean, Adults

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

  Joan Baez

  Violence, Bigger, Flopping

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• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Doe, Hammers

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  Men, Racism, Hatred

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• In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Want, Vigor, Steam

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• The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

  Amit Ray

  Practice, Peaceful, Our Words

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.72, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Action, Results

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Principles, Environment, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Soul, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Pride

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• Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

  Amit Ray

  Voice, Way, Inner Voice

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• A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life Is, Persons

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Hate, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Humanity, Nonviolent Communication

  "What would you do if…?". Interview, silouanthompson.net. March 16, 2011.

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