In her 1987 autobiography Assata Shakur wrote that "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them". How historically accurate is this statement?

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DanBaque

Although answered questions can still be re-asked, this question has already been asked before, with a few answers, by /u/tach ,/u/random-dent and /u/SOAR21:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5robzn/assata_shakur_once_said_nobody_in_the_world/

etrnloptimist

I would like to ask a contributing question. Wasn't this the tactic employed by Martin Luther King and Gandhi? A peaceful appeal to morality? And if not, can they be put into context of this quote?