Gandhian

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• And they said from today we adopt the Gandhian principle of non violence.

  Ed Mylett

• Well, you know, the Freedom Riders are coming into Monroe, and they're bringing this kind of Gandhian sense of, of nonviolence.

• I come to the study of Gandhi and Gandhian experiments with these concerns: what role do individuals play in cultural change?

  Academic text (2004)

• To SNCC workers, being bailed out of jail was what we called "insufficiently Gandhian."

  Blog text (33)

• Practicing fearlessness has strengthened her understanding and ability to practice other Gandhian values, particularly truth and nonviolence.

  Blog text (23)

• Narayan's conversion to a Gandhian ethic of social cooperation was attractive to many of the other ex-Marxists.

  Academic text (1995)

• The book is hence a key archive of Gandhian thought about nonviolent civil civil disobedience and satiagra, or passive resistance.

• For the last fifty years, Indian intellectuals have never felt shy of preaching to the whole world about the moral aspects of international behavior in Gandhian philosophy.

  Academic text (1995)

• One could argue that the Youth Leagues leadership was as much influenced by the Gandhian passive resistance campaign of the Natal Indians in 1946 (which had impressed Mandela) as the non-collaborationism of the NEUM.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Defiance Campaign and the Mau Mau rebellion offered a particularly sharp contrast: the Defiance Campaign used non-violent resistance in the Gandhian tradition; the Mau Mau used armed violence.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

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pacifist

vsGandhian

8 5.3

Not supporting war or violence and preferring peaceful solutions

emphasizes active nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience inspired by a leader

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