Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

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

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.