(65 quotes found)
“Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent.”
Betty Williams
“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
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human dignity. He was a humble man from ordinary beginnings who became a great man and a hero and one of our greatest teachers.”
Walt Blomberg
“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”
“Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Never give them the power to make you submit or rebel.”
Marshall Rosenberg
“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
Bertrand Russell
