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“ Commitment to nonviolence must not be based on patient acquiescence in intolerable conditions. Rather, it stems from a deeper knowledge of the self-defeating, self-corrupting effect of lapses into violence. ”

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Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference.

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Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

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Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

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