Word: barbey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often go unnoticed or unaided. Most violence in the world, he charged, is "structural"-the violence of "racism, militarism, hunger, exploitation of people, economic inequity, war, disease, and poverty." By contrast, "revolutionary violence is a tiny percentage-and a response to systematic violence." Indeed, said Swiss Pastor Clement Barbey, assistant to Potter, revolutionary violence has been the accepted answer to such oppression. "Are the Africans in Mozambique who fight the Portuguese for their freedom any different from our Swiss ancestors who took up arms for their freedom from Austrian oppressors in 1291?" he asked...