By Michelle Nicholasen — 2019
Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns
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One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms.
Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
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