Coretta Scott King Quotes

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon ... which cuts without wounding ... It is a sword that heals.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

I'm really a pacifist.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

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.

I am pro-peace.

Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

I cannot accept violence.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.