Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency toward…

Nelson Mandela
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Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means. ✨ Nelson Mandela (2012). Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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