As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us".
In a series of BBC broadcasts, Douglas Ritchie, better known as Colonel Britain, urged resisters in France, Poland, and Holland to take up a V sign as "the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories...Splash the V from one end of Europe to another.
We no longer want despots, tyranny shall fall now; the unconquerable women also will know how to fight.
Anyone who believes that a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket will be an unconquerable political juggernaut has never slumbered into a sweet dream, only to have it evolve into a nightmare.
· Jonathan Schell is a Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, and the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Metropolitan).
Excerpted and adapted from pp. 324-333 of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell, published by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Among many other works, he was the author of The Real War, The Fate of the Earth, and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People from which this excerpt is taken.
In his stunningly insightful book The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People, Jonathan Schell suggested that there were two world-changing inventions for the twentieth century, nuclear weapons and nonviolence, and described the way their histories and powers were intertwined.
That constant possibility of hoaxing what I call in the book "the unconquerable problem"—means that only a body will be convincing proof.
This isn't about whether Facebook will disappear tomorrow, but whether it will remain unconquerable for the forseeable future.
Undoubtedly "The Unconquerable World" is Mr. Schell's most ambitious, and over time will be regarded as his most significant work.
