We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.
I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability - not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins
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.