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

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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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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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“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time,…

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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…

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I used practically all the money I had available.

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no…

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I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.

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So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

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The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

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