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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
People have to carry on because if you don't the violence wins. We need to keep incentivising our youths to stop this vicious cycle.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
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.
There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
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.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.