nonviolent resistance
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Add to that the finding of political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan that, historically speaking, nonviolent resistance has been more successful than violent campaigns.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025
His search led him to India, where he studied Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ideas about nonviolent resistance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2024
Farris helped Coretta Scott King build The King Center and helped to teach King’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023
Carter quoted many of the same theologians King cited in his practice of nonviolent resistance, and he would join King in 2002 as a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2023
Two years earlier, King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” published in newspapers around the world, had been greeted as an important defense of nonviolent resistance to unjust laws.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
