Alveda King Quotes

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

In times of crisis and violence in Turkey, there are apt to be two class of persons—assassins and assassinated.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

Rebellions broke out, from the full-scale political revolution of Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island to urban violence and protest, often by out of work whites taking out their anger on African Americans or Irish Americans. In response, leaders had to come to terms with the role of force in a democracy.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

This revolution began with young people in Syria demonstrating because they wanted a future. They wanted opportunity, education, and so forth. They went out and they did it. Thugs came out and beat them up. The parents got angry that the thugs beat the kids up, and they went out and demonstrated, and they were met with bullets. They were killed. That's how this began.

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!