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• Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

  Topics in Indian Proverbs

  Tags in Nonviolence

• 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.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easily, 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

• Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Courage

• Nonviolence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Courage

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

  Cesar Chavez

  Tags in Nonviolence

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

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love

  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

• Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• That’s all nonviolence is — organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Nonviolence

• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Marriage

•  Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience or convictions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Humility

• If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Tags in Now, Nonviolence

• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence

• 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

• The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice, Rebellion

• Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nonviolence