"No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself."

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The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo