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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive . . .

Barbara Deming

People are arrested for nonviolent crimes every day, you had a boy get killed on television and nobody's been arrested.

Ramon Alexander

I cannot think of one example of banning of a nonviolent party in the history of the United Kingdom.

Imran Waheed

People can think anything they want. We are nonviolent, we are non-confronting, we don't even want to go near them.

Dottie Dalton

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Timothy Tyson

[Nonviolent people] really have so few tools to face a capitalist system, ... All we really have are ourselves and our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job.

Patch Adams

If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has committed three violent crimes.

Brian Corbett

It's nonviolent, and everyone is coming together, not just blacks, to celebrate.

Douglas Thomas

Not only has he had experience with social change and social action, he teaches people how to do it. He teaches people about nonviolent social change.

Amanda Bayer

Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Barbara Deming