单词 | nonviolent resistance |
释义 | nonviolent resistanceSEE SYNONYMS FOR nonviolent resistance ON THESAURUS.COM Refusal to obey a law considered unjust; civil disobedience. notes for nonviolent resistanceMahatma Gandhi urged and practiced nonviolent resistance during the efforts to win independence for India from Britain in the early twentieth century. notes for nonviolent resistanceAfrican-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.) Words nearby nonviolent resistancenonverbal learning disorder, nonviable, nonvintage, nonviolence, nonviolent, nonviolent resistance, nonviscous, nonvital pulp, nonvolatile, nonvoter, nonvoting The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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