Quotes of: Nonviolence Keyword

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonvi...

Stanley Hauerwas

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Indian

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting t...

Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49

Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. Tha...

Stokely Carmichael

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from da...

Al Sharpton

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty of life, beauty of humanity and the beauty of the world.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Baez

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p....

Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Malcolm X

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Nelson Mandela

Everything I've read about Christians in prison for their non-violent witness to Christ rings true. Whether it's St. Paul, St. Edmund Campion, Dorothy Day or Dr. King, the experience remains the same: God comes close to those in prison. God's spirit ...

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