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There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.