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nonviolent resistance

noun as in civil disobedience

noun as in passive resistance

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But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.

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Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69, due to cardiopulmonary failure with complications from endocarditis.

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Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.

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Los Angeles police arrested at least 25 people Tuesday night amid a curfew downtown as faith leaders made calls for “nonviolent resistance.”

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His search led him to India, where he studied Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ideas about nonviolent resistance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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