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He was dubbed the Palestinian Gandhi at the start of the first uprising ... Now, exactly 25 years later, Mubarak Awad still sees civil disobedience as the Palestinians’ best hope for independence.
The No Kings anti-Trump protests against Trump will be widespread and potentially historic like the 1960s civil rights ...
Gandhi was arrested and imprisoned for repeatedly ... Although Thoreau’s idea about civil disobedience is popular, some scholars are sceptical. In an article in American magazine The New Yorker ...
In today's digital world of misinformation and fleeting outrage, Gandhi's model of principled media - anchored in trust, ...
“I still have unquenchable faith in Civil Disobedience,” wrote spindle-shanked Mahatma Gandhi, loinclothed, ascetic patron saint of Indian Independence, a month ago. “But if India should ...
Opinion: Rev. James Lawson was arrested, expelled and demeaned, but he never gave up and kept his unwavering commitment to ...
Yet now opponents of the Tehran regime feel its nemesis may finally have arrived -- in the form of proliferating acts of civil disobedience. "The Iranian regime faces a threat even more daunting ...
Thoreau’s disobedience had many followers. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi were two obvious examples. Both King and Gandhi used peaceful, civil disobedience to achieve their ends.
The most well-known proponents of civil disobedience — Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. — all took seriously the threat of unrestrained disregard of laws under the ...