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Births

• 1958 - Tom Feeney
• 1870 - William Cameron Forbes
• 1844 - Henri Rousseau
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• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

  Also quoted as: “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” or “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Life

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

  Carla Gordon

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Language
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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 Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Courage
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  They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice

• 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

• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Politics, Sacrifice, Work

  Tags in Nonviolence, Worship, Ethics, Sharing, Character, School, Violence, Virtue, Conscience

• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Nonviolence, Injustice, Disobedience, Acceptance, Responsibility, Community, Conscience

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

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Marriage

• Our opponents in the agricultural industry are very powerful and farm workers are still weak in money and influence. But we have another kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as we are willing to sacrifice for that cause, so long as we persist in non-violence and work to spread the message of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their heart, will support our efforts … and in the end we will overcome.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Justice, Power, Sacrifice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Labor

• A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Mistake

  Tags in Nonviolence, Injustice, Weakness, Strength, Intention

• For every Crusade and Revolution and Civil War, there have always been those who argued, with great clarity, that violence not only was immoral but that it was even a less effective means of achieving laudable goals.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, War, Violence

• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Nonviolence, War, Violence

• Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.

  Colman McCarthy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, War, Violence

• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Justice, Racism

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Hatred, Violence

• Nonviolence, exactly like violence, is a means of persuasion, a technique for political activism, a recipe for prevailing.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Understanding, Violence

• You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Example, Violence

• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

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

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence