Nonviolence in the civil rights struggle has meant not relying on arms and weapons of struggle. It has meant noncooperation with customs and laws which are institutional aspects of a regime of discrimination and enslavement.

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

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

Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves.