African Quote by Ian Smith

I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African…

— Nelson Mandela

“resisting Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers’ regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic human desire:…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience…

— Ibram X. Kendi

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer…

— Nelson Mandela

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has…

— Angela Davis

“Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to…

— Charles E. Cobb

“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you…

— Jack Kirby

“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79”

— James Forman Jr

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that…

— Mamata Banerjee

“Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.”

— Nelson Mandela

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best,…

— Eliza Griswold