Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.