nonviolent movement Quotes

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

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.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.