Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Gene Sharp

Born: January 21, 1928
Died: January 28, 2018 (aged 90)
Bio: Gene Sharp was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and was a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Known for:
- From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994)
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)
- Role of power in nonviolent struggle (1990)
- Making Europe Unconquerable (1985)