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nonviolent resistance

  1. Refusal to obey a law considered unjust; civil disobedience .

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Notes

Mahatma Gandhi urged and practiced nonviolent resistance during the efforts to win independence for India from Britain in the early twentieth century.
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 .)

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Example Sentences

Not all successful cases of nonviolent resistance have earned distinctive names.

Disobedience of the rules is a mainstay of nonviolent resistance.

Here he puts forward his radical notions about nonviolent resistance to evil.

These are not the Palestinians being held without charges or as political prisoners for nonviolent resistance.

We spoke of the anti-occupation tool of massive nonviolent resistance.

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