Quotes about Nonviolence
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence is not the way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will not resort to violence, I will not degrade myself with hatred. I will return good for evil, I will love my enemies. Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.