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The '''nonviolent activist''' refuses to meet [[violence]] with violence but instead seeks to make those who are violent recognize that he and they share the same humanity.<ref>Gandhi put this philosophy into practice by developing a technique of militant nonviolence that was intended to force the British to see the humanity of those they oppressed, and the inhumanity of their own actions. [http://www.transparencynow.com/news/preface.htm The News Media's Effort to Hide from Significant Truth]</ref>
The '''nonviolent activist''' refuses to meet [[violence]] with violence but instead seeks to make those who are violent recognize that he and they share the same humanity.<ref>[[Gandhi]] put this philosophy into practice by developing a technique of militant nonviolence that was intended to force the British to see the humanity of those they oppressed, and the inhumanity of their own actions. [http://www.transparencynow.com/news/preface.htm The News Media's Effort to Hide from Significant Truth]</ref>
Nonviolence can take the form of non-cooperation: "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."<ref>Attributed to [[Gandhi]], http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17437/</ref>
Nonviolence can take the form of non-cooperation: "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."<ref>Attributed to [[Gandhi]], http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17437/</ref>
==See Also==
==See Also==
* [[Ahimsa]] of [[Buddhism]] and [[Hinduism]]
* [[Hippocratic Oath]] and [[Oath of the Hindu Physician]]
* [[Medical ethics]]: [[Ethics]] and [[Morality]]
* [[Pacifism]]
* [[Pacifism]]
* [[Nonviolence]]
* [[Nonviolence]]
* [[Dharma]]
* [[Ahimsa]] [[Dharma]]
* [[Five Precepts]] and [[Ten Commandments]] - "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
* [[Five Precepts]] and [[Ten Commandments]] - "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
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