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Peaceful Founding Father

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KA-47
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I have to do a project on peaceful protest and I really want to find a founding father who believed in this type of revolution. Does anyone know who believed in this the most?

Nov 30 2013 5:26PM
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2_fadez
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Andrew Jackson was a very peaceful president
Nov 30 2013 5:39PM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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Hope this helps.


Nov 30 2013 5:51PM
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Spagett+
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I bet every single person will write about him.

I think what made "the founding fathers" so influential was that they generaly held radical belief that the colonies needed to go to was with the british. There may have been some founding fathers who were originally reluctant to engage in a full scale war but a peaceful protest had such a small chance of working in that scenario that no leader would ever consider it. I am not 100% sure that's true about 96% though.

Write about Native Americans or something from here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance

Nov 30 2013 5:55PM
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howlongcanausern
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abraham lincoln
Nov 30 2013 6:00PM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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For real though I've always found Thich Quang Duc extremely interesting. Might be a good choice, and if you don't know who that is this might jog your memmory:

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Nov 30 2013 6:09PM
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will_powder
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Some might try to twist Ben Franklin into a pacifist because he said this: “There was never a good war or a bad peace.” in 1783.

But he was well aware that war was a necessary evil to gain independence in reality.
Nov 30 2013 6:13PM
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squashmosh
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Self-immolation is much more common than you think. Tibetan's still self-immolate to this day, and often, I'd say there are at least 30 lamas who self-immolate each year.
Nov 30 2013 6:39PM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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How would you know?
Nov 30 2013 7:17PM
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LiquorLanch
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That picture was taken in South Vietnam, he immolated himself in protest to the regime and the war..
Nov 30 2013 8:40PM
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squashmosh
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I know where the picture was taking, I wasn't disputing anything you posted just adding in some extra info about more contemporary practices of self-immolation in Tibet.
Nov 30 2013 9:11PM
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squashmosh
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Nov 30 2013 9:14PM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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This thread has nothing to do with self-immolation.
Nov 30 2013 9:43PM
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squashmosh
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I wasn't the one who began that digression so maybe you should quote that person.
Nov 30 2013 9:47PM
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JAHBRADOR
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I'm coming for your lunch money tomorrow, nerd.
Nov 30 2013 9:49PM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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Yes you were.
Nov 30 2013 11:27PM
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squashmosh
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Step 1: Learn how to read posts in a sequential order.
Step 2: Begin with image post of a Vietnamese self-immolation (not mine, and agreeably completely off the topic of "founding fathers"
Step 3: End with my responding to image post about Vietnamese self-immolation.

Nov 30 2013 11:30PM
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whoa-dere
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http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/I+hear+hitler+s+a+fan+of+minaj.+I+m+going+to_baa29f_3657839.jpg
Nov 30 2013 11:40PM
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