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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
Joan Baez
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
Mahatma Gandhi
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Nikki Giovanni
7.
Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Grace Lee Boggs
8.
Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.
Amit Ray
9.
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
John Lewis
10.
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
12.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi
14.
Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth.
Gary L. Francione
15.
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Mahatma Gandhi
16.
No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
17.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Mahatma Gandhi
18.
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Mahatma Gandhi
21.
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi
22.
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Mahatma Gandhi
23.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Mahatma Gandhi
24.
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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
29.
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
30.
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
32.
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Mahatma Gandhi
33.
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.
Mahatma Gandhi
36.
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
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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
41.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
42.
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
Jesse Jackson
43.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Mahatma Gandhi
45.
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
46.
It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
Mahatma Gandhi