This may be apocryphal, but I seem to remember when Mandela was being given honourary Canadian citizenship some MP objected that he shouldn't get it because he was "a communist and a terrorist". Mandela corrected him: "I was never a communist."

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The kind of thing people said about MLK when he was alive were exactly identical to the thing they say about protests now.

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do people really bleed from gunshot wounds, Tim? Grow up, that's Hollywood make-believe

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i think anyone who lived in South Africa during the last years of apartheid would be surprised to hear the regime was taken down bloodlessly

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The idea that India’s independence was ‘bloodless’ is also pretty hilarious

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