While many people may think of violence as the type of resistance that can truly create change, history has proven otherwise. ... The speaker briefly named Gandhi and Martin Luther King, who were the masters of nonviolent civil disobedience. Although Gandhi and Martin Luther King are most acknowledged for using non-violent resistance, Raqib assures that non-violent action has been used long before they popularized it. ... Thus, figures like Hill, Martin Luther King and Gandhi proved that non-violent resistance is always the answer to every problem and that existing rights were gained through p...

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These forms of resistance have had success and failures, both notable success and failure can be given to the trade union movements throughout history ( Della Porta & Diani, 1999), although many of these same forms of resistance are applicable to almost all peaceful protest movements. ... This argument is of course speculative as it is re-writing history but there certainly is a reflection on the degrees of resistance a group will partake in, it is often a case of "knowing your enemy." " Gandhi's methods of non-violence have been adapted and re-invented by protest groups, the concept is ...

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