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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
That's
all nonviolence is - organized love.
-- Joan
Baez
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One
is called to live nonviolently, even if the
change one works for seems impossible. It
may or may not be possible to turn the US
around through nonviolent revolution. But
one thing favors such an attempt: the total
inability of violence to change anything for
the better.
-- Daniel
Berrigan
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"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."
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Gandhi
once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly
taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence.
Who better than women should know that battles
can be won without resorting to physical strength.
-- Barbara
Deming
A
liberation movement that is nonviolent sets
the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
-- Barbara
Deming
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"I
object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
[He]
alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent
even though he has the ability to strike.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"There
is no hope for the aching world except through
the narrow and straight path of nonviolence."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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"Nonviolence
is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward.
It is the weapon of the brave." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"Generally
speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting,
but dialogue. The other side, the adversary, is
recognized as a person, he is taken out of his anonymity
and exists in his own right, for what he really
is, a person. To engage someone in dialogue is to
recognize him, have faith in him. At every step
in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try
tirelessly to establish a dialogue, or reestablish
it if it has broken down. When I say 'the other
side,' that could be a group of persons or a government."
-- Hildegard Goos-Mayr
"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."
-- Jean Goss
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"The
essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love
and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies,
tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle
arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma;
it is a process."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
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"The
principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile
the truths of two opposites - acquiescence and violence
- while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of
both. The nonviolent resister agress with the person
who acquisces that one should not be physically
agressive toward his opponent; but he balances the
equation by agreeing with the person of violence
that evil must be resisted. He avoids the nonresistance
of the former and the violent resistance of the
latter. With nonviolent resistance, no invidual
or group need to submit to any wrong, nor need anyone
resort to violence in order to right a wrong."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"The
nonviolent approach does not immediately change
the heart of the oppressor. It first does something
to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.
It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources
of strength and courage that they did not know they
had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs
his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
We
must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane
of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our
creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights
of meeting physical force with soul force.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
