Can the revolution succeed without a single shot being fired? Can we change the world with the weapons of humor, stubbornness, intelligence and rice with milk? Over the past few decades, important citizen resistance movements inspired by the teachings of Gandhi or Martin Luther King have emerged. Protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square or Buddhist monks in Burma show how organized and peaceful popular pressure can overthrow bloodthirsty regimes. But how do these rebellions come about? What explains your successes and your failures? This astonishing self-help manual instructs the novices of sedition by indicating the essential tasks: identifying achievable objectives, uniting the insurgents around those goals, maintaining calm or firmness in all circumstances and, above all, seeking to sow imaginative solutions.