pacifism
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Pacifism was never passive but a call for him to active resistance.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022
Pacifism lies strong in Japan, a nation devastated by World War II, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022
Pacifism has been a sacred tenet of Japan’s national identity since the end of World War II, when the United States pushed to insert a clause renouncing war into the country’s postwar Constitution.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2017
Pacifism is the ideological position, based on a range of ideas about politics, ethics, and the social, which holds that physical violence is never necessary.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2016
Pacifism is the belief that any violence, including war, is wrong under any circumstances.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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