Nonviolent Resistors

I decided to devote a separate article to them.

Here is a list. Obviously, it is far from inclusive.

• Mozi (Mandarin, 墨子, Mò•zi, c. 475 BCE–c. 391 BCE)

• Étienne de La Boétie (1430–1563)

• George Fox (1624–1691)

• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)

• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

• Tohu Kākahi (c. 1828–1907)

• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)

• Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)

• Martin Buber (1878–1965)

• the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)

• Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885–1974)

• Alice Stokes Paul (1885–1977)

• Bayard Rustin (1912–1987)

• Rosa Parks (1913–2005)

• David Dellinger (1915–2004)

• John Rawls (1921–2002)

• Corazón “Cory” Aquino (1933–2009)

• Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)

• Gene Sharp (1918–2018)

• Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)

• Václav Havel (1936–2011)

• George Lakey (né 1937)

• Lech Wałęsa (né 1943)

• Erica Chenoweth (né·e 1980)

• climate activist Tim DeChristopher (né 1981)

• climate activist Vanessa Nakate (née 1996)

• climate activist Xiye Bastida Patrick (née 2002)

• climate activist 🙵 human rights activist Greta Thunberg (née 2003)

• climate activist Isra Hirsi (née 2003)

• Maria J. Stephan (NDOB and NMN discovered)

The incorporation of individuals into the above enumeration should not be taken to imply agreement or disagreement with any of their respective approaches or philosophies. Critically thinking for oneself is always good policy.