"Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police & military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. ... Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed."
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Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part Three: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action, Porter Sargent, 1973, (p. 453).
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