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““At other times, agents provocateurs are placed within resistance groups to instigate or even commit acts of violence in order to supportthr charge that the resisters are using violence””

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There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler…

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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different…

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“In some cases, however, limited violence against the dictatorship may be inevitable. Frustration and hatred of the regime may explode into violence. Or, certain…

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“Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”

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“Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense…

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“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…

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Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used…

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Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

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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 the subjects…

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“As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880: It is no use relying on the Government…

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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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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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There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian…

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“By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.”

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We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact…

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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that…

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I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished.…

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How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of…

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Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and…

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The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose…

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“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep…

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By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of…

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Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he…

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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are.…

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