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The imperative of nonviolence overrides the basic respect of trusting people to liberate themselves.

— Peter Gelderloos How Nonviolence Protects the State (2007)

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Governments are by their nature aggressive and dominating. No society is safe if its neighbor is a state.

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The goal of our criticism should be solidarity, not homogeneity.

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Freedom as a concept sides with those who are struggling for theirs, whereas nonviolence as a concept sides with the enforcers of normality and the rulers of the status quo.

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The people most affected by a system of oppression should be at the forefront of the struggle against that particular oppression.

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It seems that the only form of violence [pacifists] consistently oppose is rebellion against the state.

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