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

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

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

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