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The general public has nothing to offer government but its compliance. It is an outsider. It has no deals to strike, nor favours to call in. All it can do is petition, demonstrate and offer distant advice. None of these is enough to shake a government from those reasons of state which normally dictate its actions. Only a people roused from slumber can shift an unsympathetic government. Only then may private concerns become public issues and grow into countervailing reasons of state.
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Parker, P., Mokhesi-Parker, J. (1998). The Fight for Justice. In: In the Shadow of Sharpeville. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14617-8_15
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