Violence is power...

" Violence is power that oppresses and makes man unfree. Counter Violence is power that breaks the rod which enslaves, in order to make man free. Violence is power aimed at paralysis. Counter Violence is power aimed at making man free for experimentation "
A theology of Human Hope , Reuben Alves

I do not opt for violence...

" I do not opt for violence, it is forced upon me. I have no other choice. If I opt for non-violence I am the accomplice of oppression, I take sides on behalf of the violence of the stake...
The Christian temptation is to have faith in a naive and ineffective non-violence "
IDOC International , May 1969 page 61 Valles Costa~