Knowra Nonviolence Nonviolence Nonviolence is the practice or principle of resisting injustice without using physical violence. It includes both disciplined methods of struggle and ethical commitments against violence.
Nonviolent resistance : Collective action against authority or injustice that does not use physical violence. It is the organized form of nonviolent struggle, using protest, noncooperation, and intervention.
Ahimsa : An ethical principle of non-harm central to Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Gandhi adapted this South Asian principle into a basis for political struggle.
Mahatma Gandhi : An Indian anticolonial leader who organized mass campaigns using nonviolent resistance. He developed satyagraha and demonstrated its use against British rule.
Salt March : A 1930 march led by Gandhi to challenge British control of salt production and taxation in India. Its deliberate lawbreaking turned a daily necessity into a mass anticolonial protest.
Pacifism : The principled rejection of war and, in some forms, all violence. Pacifism is an ethical stance; nonviolence can also describe a practical method of resistance.
Civil disobedience : The deliberate, public breach of a law considered unjust, usually with willingness to accept legal consequences. Breaking selected laws can expose injustice while keeping the protest nonviolent.
Satyagraha : Gandhi's method of political resistance grounded in truth, nonviolence, and willingness to endure suffering. It gave nonviolent resistance a distinctive strategy and ethical vocabulary.
Martin Luther King Jr. : An American civil rights leader who advocated nonviolent direct action against racial segregation. He made nonviolent resistance central to the movement's campaigns and public case.
Montgomery bus boycott : A 1955–1956 protest that ended racial segregation on Montgomery, Alabama, buses through sustained refusal to ride. It showed how collective economic withdrawal could contest segregation.
Armed resistance : Organized opposition that uses weapons or physical force against an authority or occupying power. It is a direct strategic alternative to resisting injustice without physical violence.
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