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In 2002, following time in Congress, Ms. Betancourt launched a campaign for presidency as a member of the Partido Verde Oxígeno, a young political movement with a pacificist, environmental, anti-corruption philosophy.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

It was the first time since 1924 that James Ramsay MacDonald, pacificist, socialist, internationalist, has represented the British Empire at a conference of the great powers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some the squire and the vicar and the other chief people would not allow the meeting at all, rightly thinking it pacificist.

From Non-combatants and Others by Dame Rose Macaulay

William James, himself an ardent pacificist, well observed that in the modern soldier there is a matter-of-factness far removed from the bluff and make-believe of modern life in general.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke

It is here that the importance and value of the modern pacificist movement emerge with clearness.

From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim


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