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.

The Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence.

Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.