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Nonviolence Quotes

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Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.
Betty Williams

Authors on Nonviolence Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi John Lewis Jesse Jackson Gary L. Francione Martin Luther King, Jr. Nikki Giovanni Coretta Scott King Grace Lee Boggs Betty Williams Joan Baez Amit Ray
2.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
Joan Baez

3.
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
Mahatma Gandhi

4.
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
Mahatma Gandhi

5.
nonviolence first changes the individual.
Coretta Scott King

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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
John Lewis

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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Nikki Giovanni

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Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Grace Lee Boggs

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Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.
Amit Ray

10.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi

11.
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
Mahatma Gandhi

12.
Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.
Gary L. Francione

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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

21.
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
Mahatma Gandhi

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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
Mahatma Gandhi

23.
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

24.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

25.
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
Jesse Jackson

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

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It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi

28.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

30.
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
Mahatma Gandhi

31.
We must follow nonviolence and love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
Mahatma Gandhi

42.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence requires great patience.
Mahatma Gandhi

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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
Mahatma Gandhi