passive resistance

Example Sentences

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Let's hope we see more passive resistance coming from the rest of the federal employees.

From Salon

Then he goes into a passive resistance mode.

From Los Angeles Times

She was also reading James Baldwin, listening to the news, and seeing American racial politics shift from civil rights-era passive resistance to a newly assertive Black power.

From New York Times

The nonviolence of the civil rights movement had nothing to do with “passive resistance.”

From Salon

The United States was different, too, deprived of the eloquence and passive resistance against racism that King espoused and burdened with the war in Vietnam for five more years.

From Washington Post