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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.
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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>
<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>
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==See also==
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==See Also==
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* [[Ahimsa]] of [[Buddhism]] and [[Hinduism]]
 
* [[Pacifism]]
 
* [[Pacifism]]
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* [[Nonviolence]]
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* [[Dharma]]
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* [[Five Precepts]] and [[Ten Commandments]] - "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
    
==References==
 
==References==
 
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[[Category : Political Terms]]
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[[Category : Buddhism]]
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[[Category : Hinduism]]
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[[Category : Religion]]
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