Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.
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.
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
