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But nonviolent resistance tends to succeed when 1) the world is watching and 2) the oppressors care.
Though Crete had to endure nearly a century more of subjection to Turkish domination it stirred the blood of many native sons who vowed to rid the island of its oppressors.
We are under pressure to conform to our oppressors' wishes about how we should behave, how we should govern our lands, how we should think even."
In desperation, Poland looked to Napoleon Bonaparte and Revolutionary France for assistance against its oppressors.
It commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors, and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture.