Passive Resistance (Noun)
Meaning
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Mahatma Gandhi used passive resistance as a key strategy in India's struggle for independence from British rule.
- The protesters employed passive resistance by sitting silently in the streets and refusing to move.
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement in the United States was marked by its use of passive resistance to challenge unjust laws.
- The students staged a passive resistance by boycotting classes and refusing to participate in school activities until their demands were met.
- Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid movement in South Africa employed passive resistance through mass demonstrations and nonviolent civil disobedience.