28 Nonviolence Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. Mahatma Gandhi

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. Alice Walker

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. Mark Pryor

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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. Nelson Mandela

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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society. Adam Yauch

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry. Ava DuVernay

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If each of us works toward making a sincere effort when we wake up each morning with a renewed commitment and dedication to embracing nonviolence as a lifestyle, this world will become a better place, bringing us ever closer to the Beloved Community of which my father so often spoke. Bernice King

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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects. Bernice King

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Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres. Bernice King

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Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world. Coretta Scott King

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Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. Coretta Scott King

Work Today Would Nonviolence Years Now

That's all nonviolence is - organized love. Joan Baez

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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. Joan Baez

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CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. June Jordan

Nonviolence Committed Core

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence. Linda Sarsour

Nonviolence Rooted

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

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My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent. Stanley Hauerwas

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. Stanley Hauerwas

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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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