Nonviolent in a sentence

As they had in Birmingham and Selma, they would seek change through nonviolent confrontation between those that resisted and those that demanded change.

Barnett was among about 30 nonviolent protesters who carried signs and chanted “Trans Lives Matter” and “Black Lives Matter” outside a school board meeting in November.

By removing nonviolent offenders, the remaining budget was spent on recidivism programs.

Despite the relative scarcity of examples thus far of nonviolent resistance to foreign occupation, there are those already beginning to claim a pattern of success.

Farris helped Coretta Scott King build The King Center and helped to teach Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

For Dr. King, such a reality was not a utopian, but a realistic goal that could be attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in nonviolent direct action.

He has received certification in Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) studies through the UN/Merrimack College, and has trained in UCP with Nonviolent Peaceforce, DC Peace Team, Meta Peace Team, and others.

I am glad that I encountered this tradition of vigorous nonviolent struggle back when I was in the grip of that murderous rage.

I go further and contend that what Mahatma Gandhi led in colonial India was a nonviolent rebellion and, by the same yardstick, Dr. Martin Luther King powered ahead for a second American emancipation of nonwhite Americans.

It is the eighth jury trial relating to what the group described as its 'campaign of nonviolent civil resistance last year undertaken to demand the UK government insulates Britain’s cold and leaky homes'.

Kingsley’s Oscar-winning triumph in the 1982 epic as Mahatma Gandhi — the leader of the nonviolent movement that eventually liberated India from British colonial rule — only hinted at his range.

King viewed nonviolent protest as both a moral imperative and a political winner, because it made protesters look good and segregationists look bad.

Legacy and corporate media portrayed BLM demonstrators across the United States as violent and chaotic, despite subsequent evidence that, in 97 percent of cases, protests were peaceful and nonviolent.

Peace shouldn’t be a commodity held for ransom but rather a freely shared commitment to nonviolent cohabitation based on simple fairness.

People fight for a return to democracy, and nonviolent protests within cities occur almost daily, though violence in the countryside is rising.

The civil rights movement, nonviolent to the core—a movement emerging out of love for all life, out of awareness of the world’s connectedness—is humanity’s force for evolution.

The inmates used in Berkeley County were nonviolent offenders who had been detained due to their failure to make child support payments, the Sheriff's Office confirmed.

The Los Angeles Superior Court severely limited the use of between arrest and arraignment for nonviolent crimes despite howls of protest from law enforcement by more than a dozen cities, who continue to insist the program will increase crime.

The military’s use of lethal force against nonviolent protesters in February and March of 2021 provoked an armed uprising that continues to intensify.

The Selective Buying Campaign demonstrated the power of nonviolent protest.