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is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

is avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 being.

Non-violence 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 being.

is not a moral principle but a strategy... there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

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

is not merely the crude idea of not hurting any living thing and fleeing from aggression. It is a resistance of every evil thought, of undue haste, of lying, of hatred, of wishing ill to anybody and it is violated by our holding on to what the world needs.

Now, what does Gandhi mean when he says that nonviolence is the means to reach the goal of truth' It is not obvious that by merely abstaining from injuring others that one reaches truth. Nonviolence encompasses more than simply abstaining fro1n injuring others. Gandhi wrote: ''Ahimsa is not the crude thing it has been made to appear. Not to hurt any living thing is, no doubt, a part of ahimsa. But it is its least expression. The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. It is also violated by our holding on to what the world needs'' (ibid.). Nonviolence involves resisting all kinds of injustice, including social injustice. ''No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice no matter where it occurred'' (CWMG 2001, Vol. 78, p. 144). Further, it is no nonviolence ''if we merely love those who love us. It is nonviolence only when we love those that hate us'' (Bose 1948, p. 17). This is indeed difficult to do. Therefore, practice of nonviolence is not for the weak. It requires more courage than any act of violence. Gandhi repeatedly said that fleeing from aggression is not nonviolence. In fact fighting even when it involves violence is preferable to fleeing in the face of injustice and violence.

is that at whose center stands the principle of love.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

 demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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