The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

- Martin Luther King Jr

If a non-violent movement is to cope with deep-seated fears and privileges, its strategy must flow from a sense of the underlying unity of all human beings.

- David Dellinger

The history of mankind is crowded with evidences providing that physical coercion is not adapted to moral regeneration; that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated from the Earth only by goodness… that there is great security in being gentle, harmless, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth, for the violent, who resort to the sword, are destined to perish with the swords.

-William L Garrison

Ahimsa.. is not merely a negative state of harmiessness, but a positive state of love, of doing good even to the evildoer.

Non-violence is a power which can be wielded equally by all–children, young men and women or grownup people– provided they have a living faith in the God of love and have, therefore, equal love for all mankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi