How to Use nonviolence in a Sentence

nonviolence

noun
  • Demonstration organizers are urging nonviolence.
  • Dan said Mary traveled to teach nonviolence and share her mom’s story four to five months out of a year.
    — Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • May nonviolence rule our lawless time.
    — Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And peace and nonviolence would be taught at an early age in Cleveland public schools.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 15 June 2021
  • Our principled stand on nonviolence restrains us quite a bit.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Franks said there is a difference between peace and nonviolence.
    — Jason Hancock, kansascity, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But members of the group also faced scorn for refusing to join wars due to their belief in nonviolence.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Will his commitment to nonviolence lead him to leave the Russians alone?
    — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • There’s a lot of irony packed into Cameron’s words about nonviolence when this is a guy who murdered someone in cold blood.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
  • But members of the group have also faced scorn for refusing to join wars due to their belief in pacifism and nonviolence.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • This book will be a guide for students of King’s indelible teachings of nonviolence.
    — Joseph Ross, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Proud to see so many voices united for nonviolence, civic action, and the power of the people to shape our future.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Bayard Rustin spent six months studying nonviolence in the country.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
  • Kimya, the founder of FAB, insists on nonviolence.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For most of the figures who dominate his story, though, nonviolence was far more than tactical.
    — Kevin Boyle, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Hamas has kept the pressure on Israel by at least telegraphing an embrace of nonviolence.
    — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Castagnozzi said her team has been training via Zoom on nonviolence protocols and legal risks.
    — Quinn Clark, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And in general, nonviolence tends to be the most effective means of resistance.
    — Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Despite the threat, King continued to preach nonviolence.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • McCoy said King’s lessons about nonviolence are more important now than ever.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Both led their people through seemingly impossible conflicts with grace and the ethos of nonviolence.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • King’s children were used to his short visits home between constant travels throughout the country to preach civil rights and nonviolence.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Hamer was a student of nonviolence—and not just for protesters in Mississippi.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

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