"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

Agreed.  And the way to do this is to confront haters with baseball bats and masks and shout that they are evil and have no right to their opinions?  That wasn't in Mandela's playbook, nor Ghandi's, nor Jesus'. etc.   Confronting hate with hate an't be the answer.

What's the best equivalent modern analogy for putting flowers in their rifle barrels?  Bring coffee and donuts?  How different would the outcome have been?

This is NOT a defense of the right-wing haters.  Rather, it is a follow-up to Mandela's words, as quoted by Obama, and posing the question, "What would this look like?"