"As violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and nonviolence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force," said the real Mandela in his speech at the Rivonia trial in 1963.
At the beginning of June 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the South African situation, I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the Government met our peaceful demands with force.
At the beginning of June 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the South African situation, I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force.
Public protests in 1979 and 1989 were peaceful demands for change, not real challenges to the party's power.
Home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, some 5m-6m stheng, the country has been struggling for several years to strike the right balance between its secular traditions and the (peaceful) demands of Muslim French citizens.
Home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, some 5m-6m stheng, the country has long struggled to strike the right balance between its secular traditions and the (peaceful) demands of Muslim French citizens.
"Where basic human rights are trampled and peaceful demands for change met by brutal violence, people are eventually compelled to have recourse to rebellion against tyranny and oppression," the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, said Wednesday.
I am not afraid of anyone or any institution to use my constitutionally guaranteed human rights: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of thought, and my right to share and publish my peaceful demands.
If the will to make peaceful demands isn't strong enough, it's hard to imagine people taking stands requiring real personal injury, and perhaps even physical harm.
