* It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence. -- Rebecca Adamson

The Season For Nonviolence has grown into an important educational and media opportunity to bring communities together, empowering them to envision and help create a nonviolent world, one heart and one day at a time. Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world. -- Robert Alan

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless. -- Ghassan Andoni

"It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it." -- Kofi Annan

What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem… most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them. -- Hizkias Assefa

* That's all nonviolence is - organized love. -- Joan Baez I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being. -- Joan Baez

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better. -- Daniel Berrigan

The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem. -- Bishop Carlos Belo

We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.” -- Elise Boulding

* "Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak … Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win." -- Cesar Chavez "There is no such thing as defeat in nonviolence." -- Cesar Chavez "The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating." -- Cesar Chavez

Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence. -- Anwarul Chowdhury

* The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. -- Bill Cosby

 

 

Quotes for Nonviolence

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NONVIOLENCE
HERO PIX
 
Rebecca Adamson | Joan Baez | Cesar Chavez
Albert Einstein | Arun Gandhi | Mohandas Gandhi
Thich Nhat Hanh | Jesse Jackson | Martin Luther King, Jr.
John R. Lewis | Shakira | James Twyman | Andrew Young

Season For Nonviolence - January 30-April 4