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== [[Real Life]] ==

* Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are both famous for practicing nonviolent resistance against oppressors. ~~While~~ this didn't make the people that oppressed them pull a [[Heel Face Turn]], it allowed everyone else to see a clear moral contrast between the peaceful protesters and their barbaric tormentors, which drastically swayed public opinion in their favor.

* Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are both famous for practicing nonviolent resistance against oppressors. Whi**le this didn't make the people that oppressed them pull a [[Heel Face Turn]], it allowed everyone else to see a clear moral contrast between the peaceful protesters and their barbaric tormentors, which drastically swayed public opinion in their favor.

**Which by definition makes this [[Subverted Trope]]. Propagandism, even propagandism in a good cause is a ''weapon'' and therefore not nonresisting. Furthermore Ghandi was trying to gain control of the Indian state which ruled and still rules by force of arms like every other state and therefore can hardly be said to have had nonviolent ends.

* It didn't work for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. When Mandela realised this, he moved to Plan B, sabotaging industrial targets, making sure nobody got hurt. Plan C was to be active resistance against the military, although he was imprisoned before that came to pass.

* Ditto with Burma: the monks are pretty much dead now and Burma is the North Korea of Southeast Asia now.