Nonviolence

(330 votes)   Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(259 votes)   It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(165 votes)   The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(157 votes)   Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. [Matthew 5:39]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(149 votes)   Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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