Word: nonviolenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So "alternatives" to incarceration, which once inspired social workers and prison reformers, have become the new best hope of many beleaguered judges -- and jailers too. In courts across the nation, people convicted of nonviolent crimes, from drunken driving and mail fraud to car theft and burglary, are being told in...
Furthermore, in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Thoreau we engaged in basically nonviolent protest. It is extremely sad that there were injuries among both the police and the students. From my vantage point as an arrestee, I was appalled by the large presence of state riot police and examples...
Founded in 1912 by black professionals in the judicial capital of Bloemfontein, the A.N.C. fought against apartheid for decades through rigorously nonviolent means, mostly labor strikes and public service boycotts. In 1955 it joined several other South African civil rights organizations in signing a document called the Freedom Charter, which...
On the A.N.C.'s use of violence. Violence is one of the tools we use. It was not the first we thought of. For 48 years we had a policy of nonviolence. This is a difficult policy if you are being hit and cannot hit back. Every act we committed...
The script was vaguely familiar: voting in a bloc, a racial minority upsets a smooth-talking, politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State...