Sentence examples for mode of activism from inspiring English sources
Perhaps the female audience in the sixties was not yet ready to unleash its potential; or maybe attending a movie was not (heaven forbid) the preferred mode of activism.
In this meditative biography, Slaughter provides sensitive readings of Woolman's writings in order to draw a picture of a "prophetic Old Testament radical" who practiced a patient and methodical mode of activism.
If we think of Anonymous like leaderless resistance – as a mode of activism as opposed to a unified ideological entity – then it's easier to make sense of cells that hack epilepsy forums with flashing animations (lulz!) operating under the same umbrella as cells instrumental to Occupy or the Arab spring.
My generation is realizing that old-fashioned modes of activism are just that — old-fashioned.
The burden is not so much on just asking pop culture to fix the way we go about navigating better modes of activism, but in the way our generation needs to reshape how we vicariously live our experiences through it.
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As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Shirky considers this model of activism an upgrade.
For most of American history, evangelicals have alternated between two seemingly contradictory modes of political activism.
Janie, divorced at the time of filming, both displays and describes her efforts to live an independent life; her discovery of social forces that keep women dependent inspires another mode of self-renewal — local activism that brings practical benefits (as well as an intersectional political consciousness).
Absent being a participant in this moment, I wanted to be a person who preserved these moments, these modes of radical lesbian activism.
