I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could get itself involved in, and that we've started a series of these things that will never end. — Deane Hinton, former Central Intelligence Agency operative in Syria, 1949, who was expelled from a “political action committee” group planning a coup against the Syrian government elected in 1947
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I don’t think you get rid of violence by protesting against it. I think you get rid of violence only if people see that you have a different way of acting, a different way of struggle. — Gene Sharp