1. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged black people to use nonviolent means to achieve their goals of equal treatment. 马丁路得．金恩博士鼓励黑人，使用非暴力方式达到他们追求平等待遇的目标。
2. The Land of the Free incarcerates more citizens per capita than any other country on Earth, almost half of them for nonviolent offenses. 在这块自由的土地上监禁的国民按人头比地球上任何其他国家都多，其中将近一半为非暴力违法行为。
3. One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures. (Sanskrit word ahimsa means non harm to all life). 在世间没有任何敌人的上帝，其所最爱的便是不用暴力伤害一切有情生物的人。
英英解释
adj.
1. abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
2. achieved without bloodshed
