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• Mahatma Gandhi
  ...lence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as ...reign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (249 mi) Dandi
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• Great Awakening
  ...kipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution American Revolution]. The evangelical movement of the 1740s played a key role in the development of [[democratic]] thought ...estricting the use of tobacco and dietary and dress reforms. The abolition movement emerged in the North from the wider Second Great Awakening 1800-1840.
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• Abolition
  ...list]] thinkers of the [[Enlightenment]] criticized it for violating the [[rights]] of man, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker Quaker] and other [[eva ...eatening the [[harmony]] of North and South in the Union. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison, fo
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• Peacemakers
  ...cemakers is credited for founding the modern American war tax resistance [[movement]]. Peacemakers published the first guide to war tax resistance in [https:// ...e in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement civil rights movement] who had suffered reprisals.
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• John F. Kennedy
  ...an_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968) African-American Civil Rights Movement], and early stages of the [[Vietnam War]].
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• Trial
  ...endants are afforded greater leeway to defend themselves than parties to a civil suit. ==Civil trial==
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• World Government
  #"The Civil Constitution of Every State Should Be Republican" ...ts_of_Man Rights of Man] such as right of non whites, rights of [[women]], rights of soldiers, disarmament, preventing [[war]] through [https://en.wikipedia.
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• Homosexuality
  ...he rights to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage marriage and civil unions], [[adoption]] and [[parenting]], employment, military service, and
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• Social movement
  ...[Tilly, 2004:3]. He argues that there are three major elements to a social movement [Tilly, 2004]: Sidney Tarrow defines [Tarrow, 1994] a social movement as ''collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultura
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• Intervention
  That suffering may be the result of civil [[war]], humanitarian crisis, or crimes committed by the [[government]] of <blockquote>"have no rights as a nation, except a right to such treatment as may, at the earliest possi
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• Interfaith
  :The 1960s - Interfaith movement gathered interest.[citation needed] :Late 1960s Interfaith groups joined around Civil Rights issues for African-Americans and later were often vocal in their opposition
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• Indian Philosophy
  ...ism, it is noteworthy as evidence of a [[atheism in Hinduism|materialistic movement]] within [[Hinduism]]. ...in]]. In turn it influenced the later movements for independence and civil rights led by [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]].
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• Peace
  ...to the state of people within their respective geopolitical entities, as [[civil war]], state-sponsored [[genocide]], [[terrorism]], and other [[violence]] ...m in place in which the government deprived [[African American]]s of equal rights. While some opponents criticized the activists for "disturbing the peace",
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• Secularism
  ...vary widely. In European laicism, it has been argued that secularism is a movement toward modernization, and away from [[tradition]]al religious [[values]]. T ...the basis of religion. This is said to add to democracy by protecting the rights of religious minorities.[10]
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• New Society Publishers
  ...-Vietnam war and was the first organization in the US to offer nonviolent, civil disobedience training. From this work grew the need for a publishing house, ...ment of the early '70s, and The New Catalyst magazine from the bioregional movement of the '80s. The US and Canadian organizations came together in 1990. For f
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• Obedience
  ...er how the Nazis managed to get ordinary people to take part in the [[mass movement|mass]] [[murder]]s. The experiment showed that obedience to authority was t ...wedding vow. This came under attack with women's suffrage and the feminist movement. Today its inclusion in the wedding vow practiced by some Christian sects h
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...and is currently a research specialist in [[religion]] and [[New Religious Movement]]s with the Department of Religious Studies at the [https://www.ucsb.edu/ U ...sue the apologetic concerns of his colleagues in the Christian countercult movement:
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• Conservatism
  ...on]] of 1789, that modern Western conservatism began to rise as a distinct movement. [[Chanakya]] in [[India]], [[Cicero]] in [[Rome]], [[Confucius]] in [[Chi ...ghts... . To the eighteenth century Whig, nothing was more sacred than the rights of property, ... the protest could not be entirely frank, and it masked per
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• Socialism
  ...9th-century [[intellectual]] and working class [[social movement|political movement]] that criticized the effects of industrialization and private ownership on ..., sometimes opposing each other. Another dividing feature of the socialist movement is the split between reformists and the revolutionaries on how a socialist
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• Communism
  ...e Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prague Spring of 1968 or Polish Solidarity movement in early 1980s. Since 1985, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried ...coined by the French utopist Étienne Cabet for his communitarian [[social movement]] in 1839. In the following year 1840 the British leftist John Goodwyn Barm
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