In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations. . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa. . . the independence movement in India. . . ) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
Hope will break your heart all over again.