Cesar Chavez Quotes

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

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

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.

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

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

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.

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

nonviolence first changes the individual.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

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 is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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 moral questions of our time.

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

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

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

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

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

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.