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Gene Sharp has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
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So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,…
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…
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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
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Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
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Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to…
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Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure…
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Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with…
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There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined…
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to…
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You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
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That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If…
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Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with…
— Gene Sharp
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The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…
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Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
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Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are…
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Not one of the investigations for civil rights violations that Eric Holder brought on behalf of the Department of Justice, resulted in…
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