nonviolent action
Resistance without fighting
Nonviolent action is a method of political struggle that rejects physical violence while actively resisting injustice through tactics like protests, boycotts, strikes, and civil disobedience.
Distinguished from passive acceptance, it aims to create pressure and change through organized, deliberate confrontation: Gandhi's salt march was nonviolent action against British colonial rule.
The term emphasizes that refusing violence doesn't mean refusing to act.
- blockadesBarriers preventing passage
- satyagrahaNonviolent resistance philosophy
- boycottsOrganized refusals to purchase
- bus boycottOrganized refusal to ride
- hunger strikesPolitical refusal of food
civil disobedience · lunch counter sit-ins · strikes · pacifism · whistleblowing · moral courage · walkouts · human chain · Gandhian philosophy · conscientious objection · silent protest · bearing witness · teach-ins · leafleting · sit-ins · peace · civil resistance · noncooperation
- nonviolencepacifism, harmlessness, peaceful, ahimsa, non-aggression
nonviolent actionarmed rebellion
Violent resistance to authority
armed struggle · guerrilla warfare · insurrection · terrorism · political violence
nonviolent actionwarfare
Armed conflict between groups
military force · aggression · coercion · combat · armed force
nonviolent actionpassivity
State of non-resistance
inaction · acquiescence · doing nothing · submission · compliance