nonviolence
When you protest peacefully or work for social changes without resorting to violence, that's nonviolence. Two of the most famous proponents of nonviolence were Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is a principle, a personal value system, or a way of life. People who practice nonviolence live their lives harming as few other people (or animals, often) as possible. Many political protesters use nonviolence as a tactic during demonstrations, such as sit-ins, die-ins, and other forms of civil disobedience. Once Gandhi used the word nonviolence in this way in 1920, the word became associated with social and political activism.
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peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperatesynonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistancetypes:hunger strikea voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protestSatyagrahathe form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reformstype of:direct actiona protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
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Imprisoned in April, 1963 for protesting segregation, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote this letter to affirm that nonviolent civil disobedience was essential to achieving the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. Read the full text of the letter here.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this, his last speech, on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. On the following day, he was assassinated. In the speech, King challenges the United States to live up to its ideals and calls for acts of nonviolent protest against institutionalized racism. Toward the end of the speech, King references the possibility of his own untimely death.
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