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

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

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

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

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.

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 means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.