Quotes and Sayings about Nonviolence

"Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Nonviolence)

"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Nonviolence, Want)

"I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone."
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: Policy, Nonviolence, Talk, Will)

"All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: Gratitude, Americans, Bravery, Civil rights, Commitment, Debt, Nation, Nonviolence, World)

"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."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Thought, Progress, Goal, Deed, May, Nonviolence, Word)

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Nonviolence)

"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Faith, First, Nonviolence)

"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
- June Jordan
(Related: Nonviolence)

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Hate, Man, Nonviolence, Spirit)

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man, Nonviolence)

"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
- Satish Kumar
(Related: Age, Nonviolence)

"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works."
- Malcolm X
(Related: Nonviolence)

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice."
- Mark Pryor
(Related: Equality, Time, Courage, Compassion, Day, Democracy, Honor, Justice, Martin, Nation, Nonviolence)