Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn't about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It's a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today's society.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
