Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
Alexandra Paul
I completely believe in peace and non-violence.
Ananya Panday
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
Andrew Young
If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.
Ashraf Ghani
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
Aung San Suu Kyi
I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.
I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
Betty Williams
It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
Burgess Owens
In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.
Coretta Scott King
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
Dalai Lama
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
James Cromwell
Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
Jeremy Gilley
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
Joan Baez
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.
Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
How shall we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born of the very spirit of India, steeped in the tradition, the song, the legend of our ancient land - and yet he was revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched for freedom, clad in the robe of truth, with non-violence for his staff.
My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
