Passive Resistance Quotes
See {523533} and {596221} for earlier similar views by Edmund Burke.
His assumption about whether an army was “willing or able to train its guns on inoffensive people” was a little naïve. The Ottomans had massacred the Armenians, and soon the German troops would murder innocent civilians. As did the Japanese. The Russian Communists on many occasions massacred civilians engaging in passive resistance. In Cambodia, the Kmer Rouge Army killed almost 2 million, most of whom had educations which might have made them passive resisters. Islamic Fascist governments like Syria and Iran used heavy weapons to kill citizens in their own homes because they were in neighborhoods that housed many passive resisters. Extreme Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists regularly killed innocent civilians in their homes, on the streets or in busses, just to intimidate others to surrender to their religious and political demands. He was right that democratic governments and armies would not engage in such killing of their own people, but there are unfortunately still many other governments.
Churchill, unlike some British politicians, was not a big fan of Gandhi.
This was King’s first appearance on the nation’s most prestigious news show.
This speech did not impress the South and actually lost him a little support in the North as the strong abolitionists were afraid that he would pander to the South.
