How to Use nonviolence in a Sentence

nonviolence

noun

• Demonstration organizers are urging nonviolence.
• In his deep and measured tone, King told the crowd of 3,500 that nonviolence was the most potent weapon.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2018
• Kingian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living, and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
  — Bernice A. King, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2018
• Even when the press had turned against him, when black people turned against him and saw nonviolence as soft, and whites saw him as a communist.
  — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• After the Columbine School shootings in 1999, Williams felt the urge to send again a strong message of peacemaking and nonviolence.
  — Lallia Allali, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
• And peace and nonviolence would be taught at an early age in Cleveland public schools.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 15 June 2021
• The shooting death of the nation’s foremost proponent of nonviolence helped spur Congress to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2018
• The civil rights movement was not a movement of nonviolence.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 May 2017
• After King’s death, riots and looting broke out across the country and calls for nonviolence were drowned out by the sounds of gunfire and water cannons.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• The bar was putting on a hip-hop event called Living the Dream, pegged to Dream Week, memorializing the civil rights leader who preached nonviolence.
  — Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 20 Jan. 2020
• This book will be a guide for students of King’s indelible teachings of nonviolence.
  — Joseph Ross, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
• His voice was a powerful force for nonviolence in the anti-apartheid movement, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• During the '60s, the great majority of us accepted the way of peace, the way of love, the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
  — CBS News, 4 June 2020
• Every day in the courtyard of the building, there would be groups of 20 policemen out there, and Bayard would be doing nonviolence training with them.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Hamas has kept the pressure on Israel by at least telegraphing an embrace of nonviolence.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• Bayard Rustin spent six months studying nonviolence in the country.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
• The need for radical change through nonviolence that this unique statesman posed—and did not achieve half a century ago—has again become the crucial issue of our era.
  — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• It was based on nonviolence, which is fascinating to me.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 6 May 2018
• In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• But what shocked him was that white America had killed someone who espoused love, an apostle of nonviolence.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
• Tutu tried to use his moral authority to get both Israelis and Palestinians to seek a path of nonviolence.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
• Franks said there is a difference between peace and nonviolence.
  — Jason Hancock, kansascity, 21 Sep. 2017
• The image of resistance in Myanmar, once known as Burma, is often wreathed in an aura of nonviolence.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Lee, who for years has lectured and mentored inmates to ease their transition back to society, was hired by the institute to take King's nonviolence message to the young men locked up in the jail.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• The special session calls for a different kind lobbying day, one more in keeping with the spirit of nonviolence that Dr. King preached before he was gunned down.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• The tenets of nonviolence should be taught to children in homes and schools, and that education should continue into adulthood and beyond.
  — Aegis Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
• And in general, nonviolence tends to be the most effective means of resistance.
  — Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2023
• His concept of nonviolence fashioned a new way of thinking and feeling, one in which human good would not be defined only by Western males.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
• For most of the figures who dominate his story, though, nonviolence was far more than tactical.
  — Kevin Boyle, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• Americans like to harken back to the civil-rights era as a moment of nonviolence and civil disobedience.
  — Kellie Carter Jackson, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024