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The civil rights movement had a substantial amount of violence and change only started to happen because there was a very serious threat of it escalating. Purely peaceful protesting has almost never worked and most of the examples people cite (India's independence, anti-apartheid etc.) include a large amount of historical revisionism.

>>sdkjfh+(OP)
Yep, both india and south africa had a huge looming background of potential (and actual) violence.

Nelson Mandela was literally a marxist terrorist, yet is often held up as some kind of ideal of non violent protest.