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David Gates Singer, Songwriter
Tactics

"A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment."

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Barack Obama Politician
Tactics

"I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now."

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Dick Pound Sports Administrator
Tactics

"You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic."

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Coretta Scott King Civil Rights Activist
Tactics

"The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Tactics

"Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Tactics

"I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped."

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