Gandhi

you must show courage - be willing to take a blow, several blows, to show you will not strike back nor will you be turned aside.  And when you do that it calls on something in human nature, something that makes his hatred decrease and his respect increase.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!