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Example sentences for: nonviolence
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Dylan went from protest-folk to mod-rock around the same time the civil rights movement went from nonviolence to black power, soft drugs turned to hard drugs, and so on.
The center had become a hodgepodge of unconnected programs--a day-care center, a library, a nonviolence training school.
While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.
dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.
The lesson they have drawn: Liberation comes from armed struggle, not nonviolence.