pacifist

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But these earlier images deepen our understanding of the social causes that mattered to him, echoing scenes from Vietnam and domestic race riots that clearly shaped a pacifist perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Germany dropped a long-standing pacifist tradition and started ramping up spending to overhaul its long underfunded armed forces.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

William Lloyd Garrison had been both an abolitionist and a pacifist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The student they shared an apartment with, the Wiccan pacifist without enemies, somehow seemed a convenient one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

On one trip back to Boston, he asked Tom White to give him ten thousand dollars in cash, which he planned to smuggle into Haiti and turn over to the underground pacifist resistance.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French