Coretta Scott King Quotes

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.