The ultimate outcome of all types of protest rely upon the reaction of those being spoken to, the oppressor, the bystander. This is especially true for nonviolent protest. Men like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela fought against prejudice in a way that drew in attention and sympathy from sources that would have remained silent if it had been done any other way. Turning the other cheek in the face of the sort of hatred these men experienced, and then by doing so turning the whole of history towards your cause, all while keeping the fault of violence on the other's side. The purity of their pacifistic struggle went hand in hand with the overall threat of a sudden break in their nonviolent ways made the nonviolent movement
