Unarmed Resistance Quotes

It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.