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nonviolent resistance

Refusal to obey a law considered unjust; civil disobedience.

Note: Mahatma Gandhi urged and practiced nonviolent resistance during the efforts to win independence for India from Britain in the early twentieth century.
Note: African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.)
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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