Passive resistance only has a chance when your opponent believes in the rule of law and respect for human rights. Gandhi was effective against law-abiding Britain, but he would've frozen to death in the Soviet gulag - if he'd lived long enough to reach the camps.Actually, it was the second sentence I was talking about but I included the first for more context.
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” - Frederick Douglass
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
BSIHORL I
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
In Morgan's tradition of "Best Sentence I've Heard Or Read Lately" -- I give you this, from here.
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