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Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart

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

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

Mean, Nearly, Struggle, Violent

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

Confidence, People, Strength, Strong, Think, Weak

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

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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police & 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.

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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.

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