(65 quotes found)
“Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.”
Timothy Tyson
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.”
Carly Simon
“However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Humility, modesty, nonviolence, forbearance, honesty, service to guru, purity (of thought, word, and deed), steadfastness, self-control; and / Aversion towards sense objects, absence of ego, constant reflection on the agony and suffering inherent in birth, old age, disease, and death.”
Bhagavad Gita
“It's nonviolent, and everyone is coming together, not just blacks, to celebrate.”
Douglas Thomas
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“Never give them the power to make you submit or rebel.”
Marshall Rosenberg
“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
Mahatma Ghandi
