Harold J. Laski Quotes

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Power to the peaceful!

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I am a pacifist.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.