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No people in the world ever did achieve freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889, ch. 20.

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Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, edited by Henry B. Wonham. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ch. 20.

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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything. Know this to be the legitimate conclusion from the principle of the reciprocity with regard to non-killing.

Jaina Sutras

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Sudharmasvami, Gandhara. Sutrakranga. 2nd century BC, bk. 1, lecture 1, ch. 4, no. 10.

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Jaina Sutras, part 2, translated by Herman Jacobi. Gyan Publishing House, 2021, Sutrakritanga sutra, lecture 1, lesson 1, ch. 4, no. 10.

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