Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Courtesy towards opponents
and eagerness to understand their view-point
is the ABC of non-violence."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much,
are the three pillars of learning."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

~ Jeannette Rankin  

"The survival of democracy
depends on the renunciation of violence
and the development of nonviolent means
to combat evil and advance the good."

~ A. J. Muste  

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

~ Indira Gandhi  

"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way."

~ Casey Stengel  

"Volumes can be and have been written about
the issue of freedom versus dictatorship,
but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:
do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals
and to rule them by physical force?"

~ Ayn Rand  

"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."

~ Bishop Desmond Tutu  

"The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from
incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and
violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the
constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly
in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion."

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win
and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but
reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional
catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance
is the only logical and moral approach to the solution
of the race problem in the United States."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness.
Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance
of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.
It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive
about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods
in political struggle and the quest for Truth."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance,
there is no knowing where it will take one.
Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect
and hatred is violence to the heart."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Nonviolence is not a garment
to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart, and
it must be an inseparable part
of our very being."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi