"Force is the only language the imperialists..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
More by Nelson Mandela
“If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.”
“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”
“In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.”
More on Violence
“I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.”
“When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence”
“I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”
More on Resistance
“You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.”
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.”
“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”