I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
Adam Yauch
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.
Al Sharpton
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Alice Walker
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
Andrew Young
Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
Ava DuVernay
If each of us works toward making a sincere effort when we wake up each morning with a renewed commitment and dedication to embracing nonviolence as a lifestyle, this world will become a better place, bringing us ever closer to the Beloved Community of which my father so often spoke.
Bernice King
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which currently include people in numerous nations working for inhumane wages in unhealthy conditions.
Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
Coretta Scott King
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
Eliot Engel
Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
Janine di Giovanni
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.
My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.
It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
