Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
Taylor Sheridan -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
Karin Slaughter -
BJP is the mothership of violence.
Kapil Sibal -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
Victor Cruz -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu -
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.
Inga Muscio
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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.
Rahm Emanuel -
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.
Caleb Carr -
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
Oliver Tambo -
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.
Iain Duncan Smith -
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.
Taya Kyle
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When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
Opal Tometi -
The outlook for Georgia, I'm pleased to say, is good.
George Benson -
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Albert M. Greenfield -
There is no love which does not become help.
Paul Tillich -
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Martin Luther King, Jr.