Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

To believe in nonviolence does not mean that violence will not be inflicted upon you. The believer in nonviolence is the person who will willingly allow himself to be the victim of violence but will never inflict violence upon another.

The battle is in our hands. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us