“He demonstrated that nonviolence is a way to effect change, ... He lived under constant threat of harassment ... and he paid the ultimate price -- death -- so that we may have life and have it more abundantly.”
Sanford Bishop
“Never give them the power to make you submit or rebel.”
Marshall Rosenberg
“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.
“I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong”
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”