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George Lansbury (1859–1940) – British politician and Christian pacifist; Labour Party Leader (1932–1935); campaigner for social justice and women's rights and against imperialism; opposed WW1; campaigned for disarmament in the 1920s and 1930s; president of the Peace Pledge Union (1937)
Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals, the ...
A Pacifist organization promotes the pacifist principle of renouncing war and violence for political ends. They are distinguished from organizations concerned only with removing nuclear weapons from war, though those organization may call for suspension of hostilities as well. Other organizations include those that deal with other concerns, but ...
List of women pacifists and peace activists This page was last edited on 15 August 2024, at 00:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Ada Salter (1866–1942) – English Quaker, pacifist, a founding member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Molly Scott Cato (born 1963) – British green economist, Green Party politician, pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner; Mary Sheepshanks (1872–1960) – British pacifist, feminist, journalist and social worker
The name Doukhobors, meaning "Spirit-wrestlers", derives from a slur made by the Russian Orthodox Church that was subsequently embraced by the group. [9] Before 1886, the Doukhobors had a series of leaders. The origin of the Doukhobors is uncertain; they first appear in first written records from 1701. The Doukhobors traditionally ate bread and ...
With the Confederate artillery attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, the mood in the North decisively changed, bringing a hyperpatriotic emphasis on defending the United States in the name of American nationalism. The abolitionist movement had long contained a powerful pacifist element, led by William Lloyd Garrison. After Sumter the ...
The concept came to mean "the advocacy of a peaceful policy." [10] The largest national peace association in history, the British League of Nations Union, was pacificist rather than pacifist in orientation. [11] Historically, the majority of peace activists have been pacificists rather than strict pacifists. [12]