One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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