They had not been trained since birth in attitudes of submission and nonresistance.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
Having lived in seclusion, and having had little opportunity of correcting his opinions by reading or conversation, he held and taught the doctrines of indefeasible hereditary right, of passive obedience, and of nonresistance, in all their crude absurdity.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The doctrine of nonresistance was, in their view, as in the view of most of their brethren, the distinguishing badge of the Anglican Church.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay