Gene Sharp: "Aksi nirkekerasan melibatkan menentang kekuatan lawan, te...

"Aksi nirkekerasan melibatkan menentang kekuatan lawan, termasuk kapasitas polisi dan militernya, tidak dengan senjata yang dipilihnya tetapi dengan cara yang sangat berbeda. Penindasan oleh lawan digunakan terhadap posisi kekuasaannya sendiri dalam semacam "ju-jitsu" politik dan sumber-sumber kekuatannya dengan demikian berkurang atau dihilangkan, dengan akibat bahwa posisi politik dan militernya secara serius dilemahkan atau dihancurkan."

--- Gene Sharp

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.