Betty Williams
Author
"Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong."
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Nonviolence
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Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"nonviolence first changes the individual."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills."
John Lewis
Politician
"Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from."
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"Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent."
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"The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence."
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"A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it."
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"Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive."
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"The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence."
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"Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed."
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"The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it."
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"There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence."
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"Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property."
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"For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions."
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"The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints."
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"We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God."
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"The common factor of all religions is nonviolence."
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"I have no weapon but nonviolence."
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"There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong."
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"Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home."
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"Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training."
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"The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active."
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"Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced."
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"Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world."
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