nonviolence
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Nonviolence ensured that when repression came, it would reveal rather than obscure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Abraham and the activist group Center for Jewish Nonviolence announced Ballal’s detainment Monday.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025
If a company shuts down one account, a person can simply open a new one, said Tara Dabney, a director at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2023
Teny Gross founded the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, a CVI programme, in 2015.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2023
“Your father, Our Father, haha—wait, no joke. He worked with the Catholics for Nonviolence of the Chicago Archdiocese, and they got me and Olivia an off-campus apartment of Saint Xavier’s to use for the weekend.”
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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Vocabulary lists containing nonviolence
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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