Word: satyagrah
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...from the English yoke through non-violent means in the '50s and '60s. A devout Christian--his father was a preacher--committed to non-violence, but also a leader of his people and sworn to ameliorate their welfare, he did not know how he should lead. Thus he found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia, but his confidence in this strategy waned after he became the nation's first and only president and had to confront another freedom...
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