A strategy for political change, but one that should not be confused with a “pacifist strategy.” That is, it is not a “do‑nothing” strategy. As Gandhi practiced it in South Africa (and later India) and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States, the nonviolent civil disobedience strategy involves creative resistance to tyranny (sit‑ins, boycotts, demonstrations, petitions, and so on) that stops short of using violence, even in the face of the violence of the enemy. The strategy is to appeal to the conscience of the oppressor by refusing to answer the oppressor’s violence with one owns violence, but all the time refusing to submit to the unjust laws of the oppressor.