Non-violent

Cesar Chavez asked that strikers remain non-violent even though farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.

The President continues to support funding for drug courts, which give first-time, non-violent offenders a chance to serve their sentence, if appropriate, in drug rehabilitation programs that have proven to work better than prison terms in changing behavior.

The BDS is a non-violent movement.

We have the right to do non-violent actions to denounce Israel's apartheid policies.

I'm using non-violent means to express my ideas.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the United States. With his eloquence, and his belief in non-violent protest, he became a champion of the fight against racial segregation and discrimination.

The measure asked Gov. Ronald Reagan to declare April 4 Martin Luther King Jr. day as a memorial to "the nation's leading advocate of loving non-violent action."