DeAndre Hopkins Quotes

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I mean, it's really decidedly nonviolent in the face of all kinds of situations.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Power to the peaceful.

To permit ourselves to be provoked into violence would mean defeating ourselves; our real power is in our solidarity and our capacity to endure suffering rather than to give up the fight for the right to organize; no one can weave wool with machine guns; that cheerfulness was better for morale than bitterness and that therefore we would smile as we passed the machine guns and the police on the way from the hall to the picket lines around the mills.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

We have obtained concessions of inestimable value, not by beating the drum, not by ringing the tocsin, not by tearing up the pavement, not by running to the gunsmith’s shops to search for arms, but by the mere force of reason and public opinion.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.

The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer, our answer, all our answer must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

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

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Power to the peaceful!

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.