Gandhi was one of the great representatives of this, of a peaceful opposition and he created great change in his nation as a result.
Suddenly Mariel felt helpless in the face of all this peaceful opposition.
As we mark one year since the brutal government crackdown on the peaceful opposition in Cuba, my mind goes back to the morning of March 18, 2003.
"They want to project the image of a highly respectable, peaceful parliamentary opposition."
"Look how the regime treats the civil peaceful opposition," he said.
As a student, Olavs published a prize-winning essay in which he called for peaceful opposition of the German gentry.
At the same time, these regimes had closed off nearly all paths for peaceful opposition, forcing their critics to choose silence, exile, or violent opposition.
A unified peaceful opposition is essential to pursuing the changes that are needed by the people.
Second: put an immediate end to the violent beating-up and threatening of the peaceful opposition within the country by the regime's military and paramilitary followers.
"That sort of peaceful opposition requires no guards."