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nonviolence

noun as in abstention from violence

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Having immersed themselves in works on nonviolence, they began to apply the tactic to segregated public accommodations in northern and border states.

King’s open embrace of nonviolence came with political risks.

They brought their experiences with direct action to Montgomery and encouraged King, who kept weapons in his home for self-defense, to fully embrace nonviolence.

Although she says she believed in nonviolence as a “first step” in demonstrations, she also encouraged her followers to use physical force if confronted with threats.

That's how they kept clean, meeting with the mayor one day and affirming no snitching over nonviolence the next.

Abbas has been committed—quite unsuccessfully, but nevertheless committed—to nonviolence.

This is why nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon.

I saw there, I felt there, for the first time, the pride and the power of nonviolence.

“Our policy to achieve a nonracial state by nonviolence had achieved nothing,” he concluded.

Every problem would lend itself to solution if we determined to make the law of truth and nonviolence the law of life.

It takes a fairly strenuous course of training to attain a mental state of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than forces of nature like, for instance, electricity.

Nonviolence is the natural outgrowth of the law of forgiveness and love.

He believed in nonviolence and the sanctity of life—until the first test, when he had killed without hesitation.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nonviolence, such as: pacification, pacifism, passiveness, passivity, peaceableness, and nonagression.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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