violent protest is like the suffragettes they used violence to get what they wanted

and nonviolent is where you use powers of persuasion to get your way and not to use violence.

Iran in 1979

dorothy the dinosaur

Islam and quran both are against use violence in any action where violence could have been substituted for non-violent actions

there really isn't a better or worse to either one, they are both protests and, according to history, both usually end with getting what they were about.

He stopped eating.