nonviolent activism
Marches and boycotts
Nonviolent activism is political or social resistance that rejects physical force—protests, boycotts, sit-ins, civil disobedience.
The strategy aims to create change through moral pressure and public witness rather than coercion: Gandhi's nonviolent activism inspired the American civil rights movement.
The term emphasizes deliberate restraint, distinguishing it from passive acceptance.
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- ahimsaHindu principle of harmlessness
- passive resistanceOpposing through peaceful noncompliance
- GandhiIndian independence leader
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
civil disobedience · moral courage · suffragettes · protests · Rosa Parks · teach-ins · linked arms · boycotts · Desmond Tutu · conscientious objection · Cesar Chavez · Martin Luther King Jr. · sit-ins · human rights · hunger strikes · Nelson Mandela · reconciliation · petitions
nonviolent activismarmed rebellion
Violent resistance to authority
armed struggle · guerrilla warfare · terrorism · political violence · armed conflict
nonviolent activismpolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
passivity · quietism · disengagement · inaction · acquiescence
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