Violence Quotes
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Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
Patrisse Cullors -
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Rachel Kushner -
Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.
Uri Avnery -
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
Ilya Yashin -
There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.
Brad Schneider
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You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
Anderson Cooper -
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Education is a vaccine for violence.
Edward James Olmos -
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
I think of those who are so much less fortunate than me all the time. I came out to people clapping and an outpour of support. And the reality is, for a lot of people, they get kicked out of their homes or are faced with violence.
Elliot Page
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'Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.'
Snoop Dogg -
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen -
My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
Marshall Curry -
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Salman Rushdie -
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A. J. Muste -
I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
Gary Sherman
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt -
Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
Peter Gabriel Genesis -
Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.
Natalie Maines -
As a prosecutor, I saw firsthand how VAWA has made a difference in the lives of women and girls by ensuring an aggressive response to domestic violence, boosting victims' services, and enhancing efforts to prevent and prosecute these horrible crimes.
Conner Eldridge