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
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025
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.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025
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
