"The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless."
"I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally."
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Source: Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”
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