Fidel Castro Quotes

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

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

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

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

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.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

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

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

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

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

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

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

Nonviolence requires great patience.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

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

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

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.