Petra Kelly Quotes

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

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

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.

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

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

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

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

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

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.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.