The phrase "active dissent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups openly express disagreement or opposition to a particular idea, policy, or authority.
Example: "The committee faced active dissent from several members regarding the proposed changes to the policy."
Alternatives: "open opposition" or "vocal disagreement".
Active dissent is confined to small groups of like-minded friends.
Zimbabweans had reason to doubt that others would join in active dissent.
In an authoritarian state, you can have repression without active dissent — the relationship between these elements is not necessarily logical or causal.
No active dissent from one-party rule is allowed: dozens of opponents of the regime have been arrested ahead of the pope's visit.
These signs, they said, pointed to increasing restiveness, or even active dissent, from other Taliban officials who have concluded that war with the United States would obliterate the Taliban and bring new suffering to Afghanistan.
The word khāraju, from which khārijī is derived, means "to withdraw," and the Khārijites were seceders who believed in active dissent or rebellion against a state of affairs they considered to be gravely impious.
Pakistan's civilian government is too fragile to end the flagrant impunity enjoyed by the members of the powerful military who misuse their authority and apply torturous tactics against politically active dissenting civilians.
He said Kennedy was active in Dissent!, an international network of local groups which came together to organise opposition to the G8 summit at Gleneagles, Perthshire, in July 2005.
The term may indeed be justly descriptive of the limited possibilities for active political dissent that typify such societies, the restrictions that liberal government (in its fullest sense, involving its synergetic relationship with capitalism) places on adversarial politics, but it is surely very complacent concerning the violences of this 'reasonable' power system.
After the Chicago trial, Dellinger was less in the public eye, though he remained active, even when dissent became less acceptable and many radicals turned to more profitable careers.
The right to dissent keeps dissenters active in politics instead of driving them into insurrection.
