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passive resistance

noun as in nonviolent protest

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The meme faced partial censorship when it first gained popularity around June, as authorities worried about the sentiment of passive resistance associated with it.

From Quartz

Khin Sandar Nyunt, an ethnographer who has researched nonviolent protest in Myanmar, says the nation’s bloody past must be taken into account when evaluating the tactics of passive resistance.

From Time

Garner became the Gandhi of loosies, offering only the most passive resistance as the police moved to arrest him.

Although, until they acquire jobs and babies, they practice passive resistance to the third.

For years Mandela had been urging the ANC to abandon its strict policy of passive resistance.

Realism justifiably says that they must renounce violence, but when they adopt passive resistance they must renounce that too.

He wrote the words he hoped would inspire his people to passive resistance.

Tom had quickly whispered to those nearest the pole not to fight back, but to offer passive resistance.

Passive resistance takes on heroic proportions when a duchess and a man-servant confront the Law with haughty immobility.

The attitude of passive resistance is, however, still maintained, and has affected the position of the duchy of Brunswick.

And the passive resistance of those who refused to conform at length gave rise to active opposition.

This attitude of passive resistance, dead as a ball of cotton, was always put on when money was mentioned.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to passive resistance, such as: civil disobedience, nonresistance, and nonviolent resistance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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