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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.