Michael Franti Quotes

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

We don't have to let extremists define us.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

The Islamic State does not want us to open our doors to their refugees. It wants them to be hopeless and desperate. It does not want us to enjoy ourselves with our families and friends in bars and concert halls, stadiums and restaurants. It wants us to huddle in our houses, within our own social groups, and close our doors in fear.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for