The burning of Catholic houses in Belfast in 1969 when residents were driven from their homes by loyalists: it was a seminal moment at the outbreak of violence. The Troubles: A Secret History III, BBC 2019
‘We can’t solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with non-violence.’ 400 Years of Taking the Knee II, King, History 2020
The question is, What kind of a country is the United States? That in the last few years has killed a president, President Kennedy. Has killed Martin Luther King. And now attempts to kill Robert Kennedy. Malcolm X, the black militant leader. What kind of curious strain of violence is there in the American people? Bill O’Reilly to Wallace, interview Mike Wallace is Here, Sky Documentaries 2022
Since 2006 a bloody war between Mexican authorities and the drug cartels has been raging which has so far claimed the lives of 300,000 people. Over 3,000 women are murdered every year. That’s ten a day. One every two and a half hours. An estimated twenty-four thousand women and girls are missing. Women at War: Mexico, Sky 2023
‘Although the escalation of violence against women and girls in Mexico has reached critical levels, it has bee normalised for so long that it risks being made invisible.’ ibid. International Rescue Committee
There is terror on our streets. Last year eleven people died in racist murders. Yet anti-racist campaigners are bitterly divided and are attracting new groups attracted to violence. World in Action: Violence with Violence, ITV 1993
Anti-Nazi League demonstration 16th October 1993 – degenerates instead into confrontation with police. ibid.