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

Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from ‪‎terrorism or ‪#civil war‬, and are preserving "‪law‬ and ‪‎order‬

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

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

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

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.