But he says "it was a terrible mistake" for radical groups like the Weather Underground to use violence, because "it didn't help things".
Ms. Boudin, an honors graduate of Bryn Mawr and the daughter of Leonard Boudin, a well-known liberal lawyer, was in the radical Weather Underground, which considered violence a legitimate tool for social change.
I can say, and the police can say, and the mayor can say that the violence underground is way, way down compared to what it used to be, but if somebody was on that subway car when the gunfire began or knew somebody who was shot at, that makes more difference than abstract statistical graphs.
Changing tack again, Mandela convinced the ANC's underground leadership that violence had become inevitable and necessary.
If the military further cracks down on parliamentary forces, it will drive the opposition underground and to violence.
Onlookers gathered there, and some struggled to make sense of what they saw and heard since the violence occurred underground.
But she did say that the Weather Underground's legacy of violence must be seen in the context of the times.
The arrests have riveted Turks, many of whom have long suspected underground links between political violence, such as the killings of members of ethnic and religious minority groups, and illegal groups within official state institutions like the military and the judiciary.
The attorney noted that his two escapes in Mexico — including one that involved a motorcycle ride down a mile-long underground tunnel — "involved no violence at all".
But the only thing I really remember was that we were Maoist and therefore much more pure than these other groups, and that we used to sneer at [pro-violence radical underground faction] the Weathermen".
