#nonviolence

My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#government #nonviolence #social-life #change

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#empathy #gentleness #nonviolence #peace #terrorism

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#nonviolence #freedom

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#ahead #come #full #go #good

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#background #been #believed #dialogue #everyone

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #cloak #cover #hearts #impotence

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. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#deed #enough #entirely #goal #keep

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#also #article #creed #faith #first