He is a peace advocate, having rejected violence fifteen hundred years ago.

"We hope that the English people go back to their senses and reject violence."

He rejected violence but was also deeply skeptical about utilizing coercion.

You think yourselves noble in rejecting violence, but your actions would have fostered it.

Just a day before the announcement Annan urged both sides in the country's civil war to reject further violence.

"We call on all sides to act responsibly, continue to support the dialogue process and reject violence," he said.

The shooting came as he urged Turks to reject violence.

The majority of them reject indiscriminate violence in what they call a struggle against ethnic tyranny.

We must, therefore, reject violence and war, whatever the cause of it or the justification for it may be.

By rejecting violence, King hoped that he could convince white people of the justice of the black man's cause.