- Fighting dictatorships is like defying gravity. Unless these regimes are already upside down.
- We read a lot about violent collapse of Yugoslavia and find nonviolent dissolution of Czechoslovakia boring and no newsworthy.
- Nationalism is a slavery to an infallibility of the state. Patriotism is the liberty to disobey that state.
- All dictators are the same. They are boring, ugly and smell like death. Civl resistance that challenges them must be witty, beautiful and infused with life.
- Coalition building in civil resistance is a cooker of ideas and mixture of positive tensions. Skill is to use these vibes to weave unity.
- Engagement in civil resistance builds our skills and expertise. This is why, regardless of the eventual outcome, we are better citizens if forged in civil resistance fire.
- Violence on the part of the movement’s radicals consolidates the opponents as much as it polarizes movement’s supporters. A tactic that unifies the movement and divides the opponent is strategically best option for resisters.
- Prefigurative powers of civil resistance are reflected in collective acting by people as if their freedom was already here.
- How existence becomes resistance? When the life is affirmed and the goal of self attainment and community empowerment is being realized by locals despite domestic or foreign oppression.
- Dictators are not as strong as they believe they are. Their material powers have little force when faced with organized and disciplined people.
- People are not as weak as they think they are as long as they strategize and gauge smartly risks and benefits of their political actions.
- Do the movements fail or do they just not succeed yet? For many successful movements their initial failures paved the way to the ultimate victory.
- Victims must be their own liberators. Seemingly disempowered hold the key to their own liberation if only they unlock their collective powers.
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