Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

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.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

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

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

[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.

Resisting is worth doing.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.