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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way. — Jimmy Carter

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital. — Mahatma Gandhi

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up. — Petra Kelly

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. — Barbara Deming

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. — Timothy Noah

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without. — Mahatma Gandhi

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself! — Marshall B. Rosenberg

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. — Hillary Clinton

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom. — Gene Sharp

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. — Mahatma Gandhi

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power. — Tom Shadyac

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result. — Mahatma Gandhi

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world. — Betty Williams

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. — Noam Chomsky

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I — Preston Sprinkle

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it. — Lisa Kudrow

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other. — Rudolf Steiner

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

NO is always a YES to something else. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse. — Mahatma Gandhi

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. — Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. — Gary L. Francione

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done. — Mahatma Gandhi

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. — Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition. — Julia Bacha

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. — Cesar Chavez

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas ... In truth, they are heroes of our time. — Ai Weiwei

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader. — Mahatma Gandhi

That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category. — Martin Sheen

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also. — Mahatma Gandhi

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers. — Joan Baez

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. — Malcolm X

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to. — Steven Seagal

Empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. — Maynard Jackson

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent. — Mahatma Gandhi

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

God is the shield of the nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways. — Mahatma Gandhi

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. — Mahatma Gandhi

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. — Martin Sheen

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him. — Mahatma Gandhi

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A.J. Muste

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. — Pema Chodron

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't do anything that isn't play — Joseph Campbell

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

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony. — Deepak Chopra

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be. — Mahatma Gandhi

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. — Malcolm X

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour. — Mahatma Gandhi