What is Active Nonviolence? (Philosophical Definition)

A philosophical definition of the version of pacifism referred to as active non-violence, specifically the type advocated by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

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[JinksDeJenn]

What about those who argue that you need the passive and the aggressors to make any movement work?

[Overonator]

I think empirically speaking, violence can and has solved all kinds of problems for a time at least.

[dionysianapollomarx]

Why the dislikes? I don't get it. Bots?