passive resister

His activism against the white-minority apartheid regime started at the age of 17, when he was one of 2,000 “passive resisters” arrested in 1946 for defying laws that discriminated against Indian South Africans.

For the most part they maintained a neutral attitude towards the Umayyad Government: they were passive resisters, content, as Wellhausen puts it, "to stand up for the impersonal Law."

At this stage of the world it is impossible to slaughter a nation, it is impossible to cope with a nation of passive resisters.

If this particular impost were made upon me in any direct manner it would almost persuade me to be a passive resister.

We will start as passive resisters anyway, and trust to luck afterwards.