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

We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts.

It is my great hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom, he will plunge deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. As a race we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second class methods to gain it.

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

The beauty of non-violence is that is makes it possible for the individual to struggle to secure moral ends through moral means.

The beauty of non-violence is that it is possible to fight war without violence, and it is possible to struggle for that which is right with love in one's heart.