I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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.
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.
For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
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.
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.
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