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  2. Satyagraha - Wikipedia

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    I often used “passive resistance” and “satyagraha” as synonymous terms: but as the doctrine of satyagraha developed, the expression “passive resistance” ceases even to be synonymous, as passive resistance has admitted of violence as in the case of the suffragettes and has been universally acknowledged to be a weapon of the weak ...

  3. Flower power - Wikipedia

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    Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1] It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [2] The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles.

  4. The Masque of Anarchy - Wikipedia

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    Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action. [6] It is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India.

  5. Nonviolent resistance - Wikipedia

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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 protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]

  6. Hyperaccumulator - Wikipedia

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    Viola lutea subsp. calaminaria, also known as the zinc violet, grows in soils high in zinc.. A hyperaccumulator is a plant capable of growing in soil or water with high concentrations of metals, absorbing these metals through their roots, and concentrating extremely high levels of metals in their tissues.

  7. Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... who had been an MP and had also endured imprisonment for "passive resistance to ... had to characterize ...

  8. Portuguese grammar - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese declarative sentences, as in many languages, are the least marked ones. Imperative sentences use the imperative mood for the second person. For other grammatical persons and for every negative imperative sentence, the subjunctive is used.

  9. Passive - Wikipedia

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    Passive language, a language from which an interpreter works; Passivity (behavior), the condition of submitting to the influence of one's superior; Passive-aggressive behavior, resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations; Passive income, income resulting from cash flow received on a regular basis