Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.