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Violence Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty…
- People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if…
- I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders…
- Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain…
- Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
- Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our…
- No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
- Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
- At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our…
- When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
- No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
- I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
- I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of…
- There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply…
- We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
- Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in…
- It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves…
- The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government…
- It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It…
- Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we…
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- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
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