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People's movement start when there is an implicit assurance of sustained outside support. Many feel the pain but they will turn it into action because they don't know if they can trust their peers who are feeling the same pain that the peers will act too as much as they talk. Because talk is cheap. But when people start seeing some outside support then only they start rallying for their goal. That's what i gather from the Indian Freedom movement and from the "Arab Springs"