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We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.
Justin Simien
World
Black
King
Think
Bit
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Student
Like
Also
Nonviolent
Were
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Friction
Committee
Different
Little
Little Bit
Whitney
Groups
Coordinating
Luther
We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.
Margaret MacMillan
Fighting
Ways
Finding
Weapons
Prevent
Limiting
Nonviolent
End
Disputes
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Marvin Ammori
King
Defined
Civil
Civil Disobedience
About
David
Generally
Almost
Always
Nonviolent
Been
Disobedience
Gandhi
Expression
Henry
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
Shervin Pishevar
Great
Democracy
Welcome
Our
Exercise
Protests
Nonviolent
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
Stanley Hauerwas
War
World
Christ
Faithful
Live
Strategy
Believe
Other
Way
We Cannot
Followers
Putting
Because
Nonviolence
Nonviolent
Than
Being
Anything
Cannot
Rid
Christians
Imagine
I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.
Steven Seagal
Myself
Resort
Only
Absolutely
Am
Nonviolent
Very
Person
Violence
The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Balance
Better
Giving
Giving Up
Broad
Crimes
Everyone
Our
Resources
Criminals
Harsh
System
Unnecessarily
Deter
Structured
Without
Nonviolent
Imposing
Up
Offenders
Accountable
Hold
Them
Sentences
Should
Who
Fully
Consensus
Violent
Back in 2014, my fellow Hong Kongers and I hoped to use nonviolent means to fight for our territory's democratic system - a simple right, promised by Beijing, to choose our own leader.
Joshua Wong
Fight
Simple
Leader
Own
Back
Our
System
Promised
Hoped
Democratic
Fellow
Territory
Nonviolent
Beijing
Means
Use
Choose
Right
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
Hillary Clinton
Change
Some
Through
Nonviolent
Effected
Means
Even
Violent
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
Guy Burgess
Time
Justice
Peace
Strange
People
Way
Though
Folks
Some
Somehow
Feature
Winners
Constructive
Tends
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Nonviolent
Prize
From Time To Time
Social
Social Justice
Who
Fought
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Noam Chomsky
War
Me
Argument
Overwhelming
Strictly
Seems
Remain
Nonviolent
Should
Resistance
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