Quotes About Nonviolent Resistance

#1. By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norman Finkelstein

#8. Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Julia Bacha

#9. An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Benjamin Crump

#10. Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability - not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins

John Dominic Crossan

#11. 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.

#12. The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Can you feel the steam heat coming from my undercarriage?

Melissa M

#14. This next song goes out to the girl who shredded my heart without hesitation back in high school. It's called Ball Busting Bitch, and Laine this one's for you.

Michelle A. Valentine

#15. The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Noam Chomsky

#16. what was she like? she loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier.

Elizabeth Noble

#17. The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

John Lancaster Spalding

#18. A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Two there are who are never satisfied
the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Rumi