I don't recall reading of either Ghandi or Mandela ever picking up a firearm or even a single stone, yet they each had a much more profound impact on the world than any religion could ever hope.
Why does something so simple as living have to be contorted by so much dying?
LOL, read more on Mandela. He was the leader and founder of , Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated Spear of the Nation, and also abbreviated MK), which depending on who you take to it was a violent armed resistance/milita/terrorist/freedom fighting group.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080507171208/http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mk/mk-born.html
He coordinated sabotage campaigns against military and government targets, making plans for a possible guerrilla war if the sabotage failed to end apartheid. Mandela also raised funds for MK abroad and arranged for paramilitary training of the group.
Fellow ANC member Wolfie Kadesh explains the bombing campaign led by Mandela: "When we knew that we going to start on 16 December 1961, to blast the symbolic places of apartheid, like pass offices, native magistrates courts, and things like that ... post offices and ... the government offices. But we were to do it in such a way that nobody would be hurt, nobody would get killed."Mandela said of Wolfie: "His knowledge of warfare and his first hand battle experience were extremely helpful to me."
Mandela described the move to armed struggle as a last resort; years of increasing repression and violence from the state convinced him that many years of non-violent protest against apartheid had not and could not achieve any progress.
Later, mostly in the 1980s, MK waged a guerrilla war against the apartheid government in which many civilians became casualties. Mandela later admitted that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, sharply criticising those in his own party who attempted to remove statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Until July 2008 Mandela and ANC party members were barred from entering the United States
frontline: the long walk of nelson mandela: the revolutionary: interview with wolfie kodesh (excerpt)
Whittaker, David J. (2003). The Terrorism Reader (Updated ed.). Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 0415301017.
Mandela lead the country to enact affirmative action for the Black MAJORITY!!! Amazing that he was so against aparthied, yet he enacted pograms that oppress the minority!
Mandela the Saint is well overblown!