nonviolent resistance
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The article suggested Christians should embrace nonviolent resistance and the tradition of martyrs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 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
Participants were not only educated in the principles of nonviolent resistance but went through role-playing exercises to learn how to withstand the worst insults and attacks without succumbing to rage.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024
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
