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This, however, is sufficient to show that more or less non-violent resistance and economic conflict ( if both sides are strong enough ) can be war of all against all no less than if other means are used.
It is clear that non-violent resistance is a mode of action in need of justification and limitation in Christian morality, like any other form of resistance.
and again, that `` the object of non-violent resistance is partly analogous to this object of war -- namely, to demoralize the opponent, to break his will, to destroy his confidence, enthusiasm, and hope.
In another respect it is dissimilar, for non-violent resistance demoralizes the opponent only to re-establish in him a new morale that is firmer because it is based on sounder values ''.
A trial of strength, however, is made quite inevitable by virtue of the fact that anyone engaging in non-violent resistance will be convinced that his action is based on sounder values than those of his opponent ; ;
Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.
and when this is done it will be found that the principles governing Christian resistance cut across the distinction between violent and non-violent means, and apply to both alike, justifying either on occasion and always limiting either action.
There must also be additional and more fundamental discrimination in the use of means of resistance, violent or non-violent.
The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labour strikes.
These included the non-violent resistance of Hans and Sophie Scholl, two leaders of the White Rose student group.
The Gandhi-led independence movement opposed the British rule using non-violent methods like non-cooperation, civil disobedience and economic resistance.
Opposition to the use of violence has not prohibited anarcho-pacifists from accepting the principle of resistance or even revolutionary action ( see: non-violent revolution ) provided it does not result in violence ; it was in fact their approval of such forms of opposition to power that lead many anarcho-pacifists to endorse the anarcho-syndicalist concept of the general strike as the great revolutionary weapon.
The community adopted this plan, and during the ensuing seven-year struggle, thousands of Indians were jailed, flogged, or shot for striking, refusing to register, for burning their registration cards or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance.
While there were many non-violent protests in the country, including several suicides by self-immolation, there was no military resistance.
Means to achieve these ends usually include advocacy of pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycotts, moral purchasing, supporting anti-war political candidates, demonstrations, and lobbying to create legislation.
The Federal Party ( FP ) launched a movement of non-violent resistance ( satyagraha ) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement ( Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact ) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict.
Trinidad and Tobago demonstrated a successful use of non-violent protest and passive resistance.
The local leadership in some West Bank towns commenced non-violent protests against Israeli occupation by engaging in tax resistance and other boycotts.
* October 14 – American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his autobiography that his first encounter with the idea of non-violent resistance was reading " On Civil Disobedience " in 1944 while attending Morehouse College.
The White Rose () was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
In 1938, Patel organised rank and file opposition to the attempts of then-Congress president Subhas Chandra Bose to move away from Gandhi's principles of non-violent resistance.
13 ) As a context for interrelations, the World Social Forum seeks to strengthen and create new national and international links among organizations and movements of society, that, in both public and private life, will increase the capacity for non-violent social resistance to the process of dehumanization the world is undergoing and to the violence used by the State, and reinforce the humanizing measures being taken by the action of these movements and organizations.

non-violent and movement
In 1942, although still committed in his efforts to " launch a non-violent movement ", Gandhi clarified that the movement would not be stopped by individual acts of violence, saying that the " ordered anarchy " of " the present system of administration " was " worse than real anarchy.
The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.
In 2002, New Zealand's prime minister Helen Clark formally apologized for two incidents during the period of New Zealand's administration: a failure in 1918 to quarantine the SS Talune, which carried the ' Spanish ' flu ' to Samoa, leading to an epidemic which devastated the Samoan population, and the shooting of leaders of the non-violent Mau movement during a ceremonial procession in 1929.
Nhat Hanh is active in the peace movement, promoting non-violent solutions to conflict.
Phan Châu Trinh, who favored a peaceful, non-violent struggle to gain independence, led a second movement, Duy Tân ( Modernization ), which stressed education for the masses, modernizing the country, fostering understanding and tolerance between the French and the Vietnamese, and peaceful transitions of power.
In many cases, as for example in Norway in the Second World War, a resistance movement may employ both violent and non-violent methods, usually operating under different organizations and acting in different phases or geographical areas within a country.
Other violent secessionist movements in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Punjab ( known as the Khalistan movement ), Mizoram and Tripura were also formerly active, while Tamil Nadu had a non-violent movement in the 1960s.
The Tute Bianche philosophy was based on a specific reading of Italian political / social history, including the idea that the traditional protest tactic of marching and " bearing witness " to power had outlived its usefulness, and a more confrontational, militant form of non-violent protest was required to not only re-invigorate the anti-globalization movement, but redefine how street resistance is understood.
To begin with the anti-tour movement committed themselves, by and large, to a programme of non-violent civil disobedience, demonstration, and direct action.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan's political legacy is mixed he is renowned amongst Pakhtuns, Indians and internationally as a leader of a non-violent movement.
Another form of anti-communist resistance, non-violent this time, was the student movement of 1956.
The Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade ( RCALB ), known simply as Animal Liberation Brigade, is a name used by animal liberationists who advocate the use of freedom and a diversity of tactics within the animal liberation movement, whether non-violent or not.
The existence of activists calling themselves the Revolutionary Cells or Animal Rights Militia ( ARM ), another name used to inflict violence, reflects a struggle within the Animal Liberation Front and the animal rights movement in general, between those who believe violence is justified, and those who insist the movement should reject it in favor of non-violent resistance.
The song became associated with the Civil Rights movement from 1959, when Guy Carawan stepped in as song leader at Highlander, which was then focused on non-violent civil rights activism.
In 1957, a leader of the John Frum movement, Nakomaha, created the " Tanna Army ", a non-violent, ritualistic organisation which organised military-style parades, their faces painted in ritual colours, and wearing white t-shirts with the letters " T-A USA " ( Tanna Army USA ).
January 25 – 27, 1961: Conference of Nepali Congress activists held in Patna, India under the leadership of Subarna Shamsher, Deputy Prime Minister in the deposed government appealed for a non-violent movement against the Royal Coup and restoration of democracy.
A non-violent Quebec independence movement slowly took form in the late 1960s.
Barnes suggested that Catt's conservatism was an obstacle to the suffrage movement when Catt tried to ostracize fellow suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who sought the vote for women through media attention directed at their strikes and non-violent protesting.

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