Nonviolent Action Quotes

#1. Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Petra Kelly

#3. The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

#4. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

John Howard Yoder

#6. The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

Dolores Huerta

#7. Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Barbara Deming

#8. Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I'm Human again.

Peter Watts

#13. The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

Danielle Panabaker

#14. We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. I'm very concerned about the nuclear weapons development for Iran and the destabilizing influence it has and they have in that part of the world. And I strongly endorse continued pressure, diplomatically, financially, economically.

Michael Mullen

#16. But they didn't. Because simply being able to vote isn't the same as true equality. It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly. In

Caitlin Moran

#17. To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Plato

#18. When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

C.S. Lewis

#19. It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Catharine MacKinnon

#20. The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Robert Kennedy

#21. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#22. I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.

Libba Bray

#23. Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Malcolm X

#24. Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Barbara Deming

#25. Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

Heidi Baker

#26. What are you doing?" Blake asked.
"Getting rid of it," I said, feeling unusually antsy.
"That's perfectly good J!" Blake protested.
"Sorry." I dumped the last of it.
"Front-row seats at the suicide show," Ginger said. "Lovely.

Wendy Higgins

#27. Monkey People? They

Rudyard Kipling

#28. Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Nick Hornby

#29. You will make love to a fat Prussian general who will call you his Liebling.

Ken Follett