There are three kinds of violence.

The first, the mother of all others, is institutional violence, the kind that legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression and exploitation, the kind that crushes and crushes millions of people in its silent, well-oiled machinery.

The second is revolutionary violence, born of the desire to abolish the first.

The third is repressive violence, whose aim is to stifle the second by becoming the auxiliary and accomplice of the first violence, the one that engenders all the others.

There is no greater hypocrisy than to call only the second violence, pretending to forget the first, which gives birth to it, and the third, which kills it."

This is a summary of an idea developed by Helder Camara