Revolution without violence

After our discussion in class today, I was interested in the idea of a revolution without violence. Unfortunately from past events I don't believe it is completely possible to have a revolution without violence.  I do believe that nonviolent protests can exist through various uses of symbolic protests, civil disobedience, and noncooperation economically or politically as many have in the past. And despite that these events can and have taken place, there have been multiple examples of the controlling government taking extreme measures against the nonviolent protestors thus making the revolution as a whole a violent one. I also think that whether or not a revolution can occur without violence also depends on the individuals participating in the revolution. If individuals with power (currently those who are white, heterosexual, male, and have resources) start a revolution, I believe that it would be easier for them to have a successful, nonviolent revolution than for individuals without power (non-white, homosexual, female, without resources). This concept was most inspired by "The Combahee River Collective"and the film Born in Flames. The Combahee River Collective explained that a problem in organizing black feminists was that they didn't have racial, sexual, heterosexual or class privilege to rely upon, nor did they have the minimal access to resources and power that groups who possess any one of these types of privileges were able to rely upon. In the film we actually saw how lacking in these privileges can influence the path of a revolution. Although the film was fictional, it did a great job at representing how the women were not able to get their point across without use of weapons to control what was played by the television station. I am sure that there could be a revolution without violence, I just believe that it depends on the situation.