Quotes About Peaceful Resistance

#1. His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

Barack Obama

#2. In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#3. He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance - that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

Glenn Beck

#4. Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Muqtada Al Sadr

#5. Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.

Paul Althaus

#6. Miss Fiona Castley of Paloma, Three." A brunette with smoldering eyes this time. Maybe my age, but she seemed more . . . experienced. I turned to Mom and May on the couch. "Doesn't she seem awfully - " "Miss America Singer of Carolina, Five.

Kiera Cass

#7. I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Hank Aaron

#8. Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

Krista Tippett

#9. Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

Shulamith Firestone

#10. She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.

Jess C. Scott

#11. A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital.

Karl Marx

#12. There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

Keith Hobbs

#14. Pride often led men to foolish ends.

Alex Westmore

#15. I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Tom Morello

#16. 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

#17. All religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#18. Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Seth Godin

#19. After everything the past has tried to bury us under, we owe it to ourselves to be brave, to do more than float.

Jay Crownover

#20. A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Ned Sublette

#21. I like to do a couple of yoga classes during the week. Yoga for me is more of an elongating thing.

Jessica Biel

#22. Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with your life's purpose. If your current work area is different than your purpose then you will face extra challenges.

Hina Hashmi

#23. Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt