You don’t kill the movement by killing the man; you hand the movement his ghost. Worse, it gives his allies carte blanche to crack down harder, scream about “lawlessness,” and tighten their grip in ways the system can’t easily reverse. Nonviolent resistance doesn’t just look better — it works better, because it leaves the institutions intact and... See more

Sometimes you have to imagine in a radical way that makes you seem a little crazy, that puts you in an embarrassing light, in order to open up a possibility that others have already closed down with their knowing realism. I’m prepared to be mocked and dismissed for defending nonviolence in the way that I do. It might be understood as one of the

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