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Nonviolence   /nɑnvˈaɪələns/   Listen
Nonviolence

noun
1.
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.  Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance.






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"Nonviolence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Summers,[65] where the Court upheld the action of a State Supreme Court in denying a license to practice law to an applicant who entertained conscientious scruples against participation in war. The license was withheld on the premise that a conscientious belief in nonviolence to the extent that the believer would not use force to prevent wrong, no matter how aggravated, made it impossible for him to swear in good faith to support the State Constitution. The Supreme Court held that the State's insistence that an officer charged with the administration of justice take such ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... gentler there. But it was all right as far as he was concerned. He had heard of safer and duller ways to live but had never wanted them. Life as a moonbased transport manager had been a short interval of nonviolence, five years of startling calm which he had not ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye



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