passive resisters
Peaceful protest practitioners
Passive resisters are people who oppose authority or injustice through nonviolent means—refusing to comply rather than fighting back.
The term evokes movements like Gandhi's campaigns in India or civil rights sit-ins: The passive resisters allowed themselves to be arrested without resisting.
They accept consequences rather than submit or retaliate.
- noncooperationRefusing to work together
- satyagrahaNonviolent resistance philosophy
- activistVigorous cause champion
- conscientious objectorOne refusing military service morally
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
Mahatma Gandhi · defiance · sit-ins · lunch counter sit-ins · Rosa Parks · suffragettes · hunger strikes · protest · boycotts · draft dodgers · refusals · pacifists · Martin Luther King Jr. · peacemakers · nonviolence · peaceful protest · dissent · moral courage
passive resistersmilitants
Aggressive advocates for causes
guerrilla fighters · terrorists · rioters · armed rebels · freedom fighters
passive resisterscollaborators
People who work jointly
quislings · conformists · loyalists · appeasers · enforcers
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