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Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister.

From Time Magazine Archive

A passive resister rather than a rebel, always intimidated by his big, bumbling father, he decided at last on a Church career.

From Time Magazine Archive

He always assumes the rôle of passive resister, and is always defeated with ignominy.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

I had to turn passive resister before I could be taken.

From Third class in Indian railways by Gandhi, Mahatma

Ewart gave me all my first conceptions of socialism; in a little while I was an enthusiastic socialist and he was a passive resister to the practical exposition of the theories he had taught me.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)