Great Civilizations Aren't Ruled by Guns
by Jesse Jackson
March 9, 2010

The suffragists did not need guns to win women's right to vote. Dr. King did not need guns to bring down the Cotton Curtain. Gandhi did not need guns to free India. Lech Walesa did not need guns to lift up Solidarity in Poland. Vaclav Havel did not need guns for Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution. Chile did not need guns to bring Pinochet to justice. When the Berlin Wall came down, the protesters did not wave their AK-47s; they sang We Shall Overcome. Read the full story

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