But these crowds clearly had internalized at least one pillar of the American way: that peaceful dissent can spur a government to action.

Those included in the list are individuals who were imprisoned for activities ranging from peaceful dissent to violent revolutionary activity.

It was the strongest crackdown by the Palestinians to date on peaceful dissent.

A trial in Delmas brought treason convictions for what most of the world would call peaceful political dissent.

There are officials inside China's bureaucracy who argue that the country would be more stable if it permitted peaceful dissent and allowed some independent civil society.

The goals of the constitution, listed in the preamble, come down to justice and peaceful dissent.

Not one to take even peaceful dissent lightly, Suharto cracked down hard.

When you begin to crush peaceful dissent, you may be making it impossible to respond in any way but in-kind.

We also imported India's method of peaceful dissent, which fueled our civil rights movement in the 1960's.

We have chastised one government after another for using terrorism as an excuse to muzzle peaceful dissent.