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pacifist

[pas-uh-fist] / ˈpæs ə fɪst /


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Nimbly, it manages to be both a pacifist film and a subversive one with no faith in the system as it stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

They have also unnerved survivors of the 1945 bombings, who have long helped shape Japan's post-war pacifist political culture.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Miyazaki is a noted pacifist, but “Princess Mononoke” is his most humanist work.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

More recently the late Shinzo Abe, Kishi's grandson, became an advocate of amending the so-called pacifist clause during his time in office.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Heroes like Mahatma Gandhi, the great pacifist, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

A group of young people told the BBC they were "pacifists" who are "just trying to make things change, but nothing is moving".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

The league specifically targeted suspected German sympathizers, socialists, labor activists and pacifists.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024

The Amish are pacifists, he hastened to add.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

As pacifists, many Quaker men refused to vote, as a protest against government engagement in war.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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