Alveda King Quotes

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Power to the peaceful!

You can't change the system through violence.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

I am certainly willing to fight for America as well as vote, but I shall fight just the way you did in the Civil War—at the end of a goose quill pen

Not one of us will have to raise a sword. Not one gun would we need to fire. The great cannon that will be fired is our unity.

If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

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.

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

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I mean, it's really decidedly nonviolent in the face of all kinds of situations.

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.

Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

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

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

[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.