Satish Kumar

At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim -- "walking coast to coast for peace for nearly 30 years, living on faith and sharing her wisdom and exuberance generously with people across the land.

In 1962, Satish Kumar set off from India on a peace walk that took him to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington DC, a  journey of around 8,000 miles and two and half years.

The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament  was a cross-country mass walk in 1986 with a goal of raising awareness to the growing danger of nuclear proliferation and to advocate for their complete and verifiable elimination. 

Following the end of the Vietnam War, in the year of the US Bicentennial, the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was an effort to refocus attention on the urgent issues of armaments.

On December 1, 1960, just after a rally in San Francisco, ten members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action marched out of the city, intent on marching across the country.

Martin Luther King and thousands of nonviolent activists marched 54 miles from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery as part of the campaign for equal voting rights.

Bhoodan walked for more than a decade, covering an estimated 70-80 thousand kilometres asking landowners to consider him a son and give him one-sixth of their land for him to distribute to the poor.

In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi led a 24-day nonviolent civil disobedience (satyagraha) march to the Indian Ocean.