Nonviolent Quotes

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• 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. Mahatma Gandhi
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• 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. Mohandas Gandhi
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• That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category. Martin Sheen
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• So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn`t because of Black Power, isn`t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it`s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. Stokely Carmichael
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• Since 1970, we`ve spent more than a trillion dollars on this war and all we have to show for it each year is we arrest another 1.6 million people in this country for nonviolent drug offenses. Fully half are marijuana arrests. Jack Cole
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• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. Al Hostetler
  Author: Al Hostetler Quotes

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• Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Al Hostetler
  Author: Al Hostetler Quotes

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• Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent. Betty Williams
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• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. Al Hostetler
  Author: Al Hostetler Quotes

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• I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. Anthony Kiedis
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• I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. Martin Sheen
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• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. Alvin Rosenfeld
  Author: Alvin Rosenfeld Quotes

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• [Nonviolent people] really have so few tools to face a capitalist system, ... All we really have are ourselves and our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job. Patch Adams
  Author: Patch Adams Quotes

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