Synonyms for nonviolence
nɒnˈvaɪ ə lənsnon·vi·o·lence

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1. passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, nonviolencenoun

   peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

   Synonyms:
   passive resistance, nonviolent resistance

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1. List of paraphrases for "nonviolence":

   non-violence

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1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

2. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

3. Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964:

   Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

4. Mahatma Gandhi:

   It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

5. Raphael Warnock:

   I have never been violent to anybody for any reason. I have spent my entire life as a citizen, as a pastor of Dr. King’s church steeped in the philosophy of nonviolence, my opponent, on the other hand, has a well-documented history of violence, and he hasn’t come clean about it.