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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/william-whipper-nonviolence by William Whipper 16/9/1837 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT]

William Whipper was an African American abolitionist and businessman from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who played an active role on the Underground Railroad, furnishing food and transportation assistance to people escaping from slavery.

=====The Machiavelli of Nonviolence: Gene Sharp and the Battle Against Corporate Rule=====

[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-machiavelli-of-nonviolence-gene-sharp-and-the-battle-against-corporate-rule/ by DISSENT 2013]

If there are some things in life that should not be bet on, the question of who will next win the Nobel Peace Prize somehow feels like it should be among them. Internet bookmakers, however, will place odds on almost anything, and they are not above taking wagers on Nobel prospects. Over the past two years, some of the safest money has not been on a head of state, a major nongovernmental organization, or a charismatic resistance leader, but rather on a soft-spoken, eighty-five-year-old academic. His name is Gene Sharp.

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 [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/william-whipper-nonviolence by William Whipper 16/9/1837 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT]
   William Whipper was an African American abolitionist and businessman from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who played an active role on the Underground Railroad, furnishing food and transportation assistance to people escaping from slavery.
+=====The Machiavelli of Nonviolence: Gene Sharp and the Battle Against Corporate Rule=====
+[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-machiavelli-of-nonviolence-gene-sharp-and-the-battle-against-corporate-rule/ by DISSENT 2013]
+ If there are some things in life that should not be bet on, the question of who will next win the Nobel Peace Prize somehow feels like it should be among them. Internet bookmakers, however, will place odds on almost anything, and they are not above taking wagers on Nobel prospects. Over the past two years, some of the safest money has not been on a head of state, a major nongovernmental organization, or a charismatic resistance leader, but rather on a soft-spoken, eighty-five-year-old academic. His name is Gene Sharp.