“The public has expressed legitimate concerns about [the law's] use against those who commit new, nonviolent, not serious offenses. We think that if we don't fix the law, we may lose it to those who would weaken it so much it would lose its teeth.”
Steve Cooley
“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
“It's nonviolent, and everyone is coming together, not just blacks, to celebrate.”
Douglas Thomas
“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”
