"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Book Review: The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Nonviolent action is based on the very simple assumption that people do not always do what they are told to do and sometimes do things which they are not supposed to do. Nonviolent action is not inaction, as Sharp stresses; rather it is direct action which is not violent in nature.
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This reviews books published in 1973 and 1985. I wish it had mentioned that...