Cesar Chavez on Nonviolence
“Nonviolence 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
“Nonviolence 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
· Filed under Nonviolence
This is Living Jain: Daily, a place where short daily messages that align to the timeless Jain tradition are shared.
These daily messages are for reflection and focus each day.
There are 3 ways to get these daily messages
For articles and other resources about how to embrace insights from the Jain tradition and carry them forward into your work, your relationships and your health, visit www.livingjain.com.
Ability (1)
Abundance (2)
Acceptance (3)
Accomplishment (1)
Achievement (1)
Action (1)
Adventure (1)
Adversity (8)
Ambition (1)
Anger (1)
Appreciation (2)
Attitude (5)
Being (2)
Belief (1)
Bereavement (1)
Big Picture (1)
Brotherhood (2)
Calm (2)
Capability (1)
Cause (2)
Change (7)
Character (7)
Charm (1)
Children (2)
Choice (1)
Circumstance (2)
Commitment (2)
Communication (3)
Community (1)
Compassion (9)
Conduct (1)
Conquering (4)
Contemplation (3)
Contentment (3)
Control (5)
Conversation (2)
Conviction (1)
Courage (9)
Daring (1)
Decision (8)
Delusion (1)
Desire (2)
Destiny (2)
Detachment (7)
Determination (1)
Devotion (1)
Discipline (13)
Discriminative Intelligence (2)
Divinity (1)
Doing (2)
Dreams (1)
Duty (3)
Effort (2)
Equality (1)
Equanimity (3)
Excitement (1)
Experience (1)
Faith (5)
Family (1)
Flow (1)
Focus (5)
Forgiveness (6)
Freedom (10)
Friendship (8)
Fulfilment (2)
Generosity (1)
Gentleness (1)
Giving (1)
Goals (7)
Gratitude (4)
Greatness (2)
Growth (1)
Happiness (13)
Health (1)
Heroes (3)
Home (1)
Honesty (1)
Humility (1)
Ideas (1)
Ignorance (1)
Impermanence (4)
Independence (1)
Individuality (1)
Inevitability (1)
Initiative (3)
Inner Light (1)
Integrity (5)
Intention (2)
Justice (2)
Karma (2)
Kindness (3)
Knowledge (4)
Language (1)
Laughter (1)
Leadership (2)
Learning (6)
Life (3)
Lightness (2)
Listening (2)
Living (3)
Love (14)
Manners (1)
Marriage (6)
Mastery (3)
Materialism (1)
Maturity (1)
Meditation (3)
Mind (2)
Mindfulness (1)
Moderation (1)
Moksha (1)
Morality (2)
Mother (2)
Newsletter (2)
Nonviolence (5)
Observing (1)
Oneness (1)
Opportunity (5)
Optimism (1)
Passions (1)
Patience (4)
Peace (9)
Perception (6)
Perseverance (10)
Persuasion (1)
Play (2)
Power (3)
Progress (12)
Proverb (1)
Purpose (4)
Quote (295)
Reality (1)
Relationships (5)
Relaxation (1)
Reputation (1)
Respect (4)
Responsibility (7)
Seeking (1)
Self-Realisation (2)
Service (2)
Silence (6)
Simplicity (3)
Sincerity (3)
Solitude (6)
Solutions (2)
Soul (2)
Speaking Up (3)
Stillness (1)
Strength (2)
Success (1)
Teaching (3)
Thoughts (6)
Time (3)
Tolerance (1)
Training (1)
Trust (1)
Truth (9)
Uncategorized (6)
Understanding (1)
Unity (2)
Victory (3)
Vigilance (2)
Vision (1)
Wisdom (5)
Work (3)
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Copyright © 2008 Living Jain: Daily
Parke Burgess Said,
July 2, 2008 @ 5:24 am
Thank you for providing this quote. Of course, Chavez is absolutely right!