Walt Dohrn Quotes

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

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

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

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

The world is too violent right now.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

I think it's going to be a doosey. I mean, talk about a fistfight in a whorehouse.

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

The fires of discord are busy in every city. Redress is sought in the street, in demonstrations, parades and protests which create tensions and threaten violence. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people.

As soon as external wars have ceased the internal commence

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

Politics for me started in violence.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.