In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.