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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (Thanks, Y.O. for the suggestion) --------------------------------------------------------- It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice which drives the political offender to his act. To condemn him means to be blind to the causes which make him. I can no more do it, nor have I the right to, than the physician who were to condemn the patient for his disease. You and I and all of us who remain indifferent to the crimes of poverty, of war, of human degradation, are equally responsible for the act committed by the political offender. May I therefore be permitted to say, in the words of a great teacher: “He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” Does that mean advocating violence? You might as well accuse Jesus of advocating prostitution, because He took the part of the prostitute, Mary Magdalene." Emma Goldman, Address to the Jury, July 9, 1917. (she was convicted and spent two years in jail before being deported. Her crime? Speaking out against conscription during WWI.)