• Civil resistance is a form of political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force...
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    Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist...
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    Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic...
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    Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej, short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during...
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  • resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist the government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil...
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  • power Civil resistance Draft evasion, also draft resistance, organized or personal opposition to military conscription Nonviolent resistance Resistance through...
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    in resistance, including attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime. German resistance was not recognized as a united resistance movement...
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  • Czechoslovakia and the uprisings in Hungary. Most civil rights movements relied on the technique of civil resistance, using nonviolent methods to achieve their...
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    Advanced Study. They are known for their research work on nonviolent civil resistance movements. Erica Chenoweth received their B.A. at the University of...
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  • protests or nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as Civil Disobedience, popularized...
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