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• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Faces, Violence

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• The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."

  Nathaniel Altman

  Compassion, Sacred, Reverence For Life

  Nathaniel Altman (1994). “Sacred Trees”, Random House (NY)

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• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  March On Washington, Soul, Height

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Violence

  Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

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• A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Action, Violent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Doe, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Understanding, Aftermath

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• To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Secret, Gita

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• All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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• Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  People, Humanity, Enemy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Caves, Virtue, Dwellers

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

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• Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

  John Lewis

  Believe, Black History, Way

  "John Lewis on 'March: Book One'". Printers Row Journal Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Peace, War

  "Secretary-General Stresses Need for Culture of Peace". Kofi Annan's message for the occasion of the International Day of Peace (September 14), www.un.org. September 10, 1999.

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• Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Christian, Jesus, Peace

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  War, Calling, Halfway

  "Nonviolence as Compliance" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. April 27, 2015.

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• History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Records, Resistance, Adopted

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.334, Grove Press

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• It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Christian, War, Caring

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• Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Technique, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

  Thomas Merton

  Winning, Blood, Trying

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.192, Macmillan

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• The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Humility, Mind

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Thomas Merton: On Peace”, Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

  Daniel Berrigan

  Inability, Favors, May

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brutality, Survivor, Violence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Government, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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