Marvin Ammori Quotes

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

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

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

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

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

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

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

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.