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• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence

• All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

  Unknown

  Topics in Ideals, Love, Politics

  Tags in Nonviolence, Jean Goss, Violence

• I would say that I’m a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you…because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence

• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence…the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Topics in History, Justice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nonviolence, Good, Evil, Violence

• We tend to think the problem is human beings have this natural tendency to kill, and yet in the middle of a hot war, WWII, a “good war,” as it were, the US army was astonished to learn that at least three out of every four riflemen who were trained to kill and commanded to kill, could not bring themselves to pull the trigger when they could see the person they were ordered to kill. And that inner resistance to violence is a well kept secret.

  William Ury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Nonviolence, Responsibility, Violence

• South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, “I don’t make way for gorillas.” At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep sweeping gesture, and said, “Ah, yes, but I do.”

  Walter Wink

  Topics in Leadership, Racism

  Tags in Nonviolence, Hatred

• There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,” but will curse and damn you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.” There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Politics, Racism

  Tags in Nonviolence, War

• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, War

• At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

  Cesar Chavez

  Tags in Nonviolence

• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the wor.

  Joan Baez

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

  Cesar Chavez

  Tags in Nonviolence

• 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 Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• I have come into this world to see this:
  the sword drop from men’s hands
  even at the height of
  their arc of
  rage
  because we have finally realized
  there is just one flesh
  we can wound.

  Hafez

  Tags in Nonviolence, Interdependence

• That’s all nonviolence is — organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Nonviolence