War cannot be a necessary evil, because nonviolence is a necessary good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of War] Reference

For me, as for many who call themselves pacifists, nonviolence is the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

If nonviolence is to work it must be used consistently and across the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can you prove nonviolence works?] Reference

One of the foundational principles behind Quaker nonviolence is truthfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can you prove nonviolence works?] Reference

But Niebuhr, with characteristic subtlety, saw some merit in nonviolence even so.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man for All Reasons] Reference

I just mean to underscore that nonviolence is a hard thing to adopt in a mass movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence] Reference

For this reason, whether we like it or not, nonviolence is the only approach, and the right one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 - Presentation Speech] Reference

For perfectly understandable reasons the policy of nonviolence is often regarded as something negative, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 - Presentation Speech] Reference

The real power of nonviolence is not to deter an aggressor, but to unify your allies and potential supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence] Reference

India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King - Acceptance Speech] Reference

In a sense, Israel is the one who needs to engage in nonviolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence] Reference

The Gospel also opposes power with nonviolence, that is, power of another kind, moral, not physical power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Cantalamessa: On Power] Reference

I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [April « 2008 « Bill Ayers] Reference

The term means "nonviolence," "non-injury," or absence of desire to harm any life forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

But I have one request: please don't clutter the word "nonviolence" with that pesky little hyphen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonviolent Saints] Reference

That's the biggest challenge: many Palestinians define "nonviolence" to include stone-throwing.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The only thing that can help us is active nonviolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gandhi’s Wonder Years] Reference

And to reject disloyalty, anything to the idea of nonviolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [R&B Legend Wilson Pickett] Reference

King and his talk about nonviolence struck Marshall as childish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strangest Of Bedfellows] Reference

If I want clean hands, I have to choose between nonviolence and submission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let The Walls Tumble Down] Reference

If we are looking for converts to anything, it is for converts to nonviolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christian In Iraq] Reference

We are there to model nonviolence to our churches in America and to our president.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christian In Iraq] Reference

There's an opportunity here to instill a deeper ethos of nonviolence in these children.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Live In A Very Angry Society, A Very Violent Society'] Reference

But it also marked the effective end to nonviolence as a potent force in the civil-rights movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [King's Final Years] Reference

The idea of satyagraha applied to ecology is powerful — it's about nonviolence to the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Name Of Gandhi] Reference

Ali Akbar New York, New York The vast majority of Muslims believe in tolerance, harmony, co-existence and nonviolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Stokely -- who was moving away from the principles of nonviolence -- was now in charge of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey Of A Passionate Radical] Reference