Nelson Mandela Violence Quotations

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

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.