Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

War is the business of barbarians.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The world is too violent right now.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Man, all lives matter.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.