It was in 1906 that he first took a vow of passive resistance to a law which he regarded as a deliberate attack upon their religion, their national honour, and their racial self-respect.
It is the State which is to be coerced by threats of passive resistance or general strikes; but if the State attempts coercion in the exercise of its functions it is met by the passionate proclamation of the rights of personal freedom.
THE NEW PERIL For a long time past there has existed in this country a sort of smouldering rebellion known as passive resistance.
Conscientious objections to certain forms of education are respected in England when they are emphasised by passive resistance.
There is every reason to suppose that the Sinn Féin movement, in so far as it consists of passive resistance, will be regarded by the Irish people as merely doing nothing.
In his wanderings his heart burned within him many a time, and he abruptly departed from his theory of passive resistance.
The serfs did not offer him any open opposition, and were always obsequiously respectful in their demeanour towards him, but they invariably frustrated his plans by their carelessness and stolid, passive resistance.
It proves satisfactorily that the Russian people is by no means so docile and pliable as is commonly supposed, and that it is capable of showing a stubborn, passive resistance to authority when it believes great interests to be at stake.
To all explanations and exhortations he turned a deaf ear, and to the efforts of the rural police he too often opposed a dogged, passive resistance.
Meanwhile "passive resistance" lost its interest, though Dr Clifford and his followers continued to protest against their treatment.
In short, what is called "passive resistance" took any number of forms, from the ordinary Christian maxim to be patient under tribulation, to that inculcated and practised by the modern sect of Dunkers.
It is to be wondered at that those who stood firm sometimes gave way to hysterical excesses; that their leaders began to preach another creed than that of passive resistance; that wild apocalyptic visions were reported and believed?
Passive resistance on the part of the inferior authorities frequently interposed itself between the Emperor and the execution of his bloodthirsty proclamations.
Then, and not till they had exhausted every method of passive resistance, the Anabaptists began to strike back.
The social revolution is to come about by passive resistance; that is, refusal of obedience.
Passive resistance is the most potent weapon ever wielded by man against oppression.
Passive resistance,' said Ferdinand Lassalle, with an obtuseness thoroughly German, 'is the resistance which does not resist.
But if it means the doings of kings and emperors, there can be no evidence of soul-force or passive resistance in such history.
Passive Resistance of Caesar It was not the intention of Caesar on the other hand to fall out at this moment with Pompeius.
Cato was still absent;(4) the most influential man in the senate at this time was Marcus Bibulus, the hero of passive resistance, the most obstinate and most stupid of all consulars.
Passive Resistance of the Senate to Caesar Very soon he experienced remarkable treatment in this respect at the hands of the senate.
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