tactical nonviolence Quotes

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.