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From: stim@fluke.UUCP (Randy Stimpson)
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Subject: Re: The use of nonviolence.
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 12:59:19 EST
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Frank Adams writes:
>I would like to emphasize this point.  I think the success of King and Gandhi
>says very positive things about modern American and British society.  Civil
>disobedience in Russia today is in most cases quite useless -- unless you are
>already famous, the government quietly locks you up and no one ever hears of
>it.  What value there is in the tactic is only because of foreign pressure.

Both Gandhi and King were killed, like their mentor.

>Civil disobedience is preferable to violence if it works, but it only works
>against fundamentally decent opponents.