Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

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

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

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

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.'

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.