Herbert Hoover Quotes

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

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

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we can not only change a life or save a life, but we can also make it possible for other people to speak up. If we harness the collective power of people's voices around America to address the opioid epidemic, I have no doubt that we can overcome it.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

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

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed... And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.