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“nonviolent campaigns facilitate the active participation of many more people than violent campaigns, thereby broadening the base of resistance and raising the costs to opponents of maintaining the status quo.”
― Erica Chenoweth, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

“Regardless, the notion that nonviolent action can be successful only if the adversary does not use violent repression is neither theoretically nor historically substantiated.”
― Erica Chenoweth, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

“Many movements find it extremely difficult to help others imagine and create alternatives to any existing system, especially alternatives that would appeal to a broad coalition-and that becomes more difficult when the system is complex and self-reinforcing. As Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has said regarding the global economic system in particular, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Erica Chenoweth, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®

“Second, security studies scholars seem to have eschewed the study of nonviolent action because nonviolent action is not typically viewed as a form of insurgency or asymmetrical warfare (Schock 2003).”
― Erica Chenoweth, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

“Many movements find it extremely difficult to help others imagine and create alternatives to any existing system, especially alternatives that would appeal to a broad coalition-and that becomes more difficult when the system is complex and self-reinforcing. As Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has said regarding the global economic system in particular, 'It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Erica Chenoweth, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®