Coretta Scott King Quotes

nonviolence first changes the individual.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

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.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

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

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

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

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

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

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.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

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.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

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 believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.