Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many"
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Violence
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Barack Obama
Politician
"No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence."
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"Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans."
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"Nothing good ever comes of violence."
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"The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence."
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"The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism."
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"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others"
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"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism."
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"Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love."
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"Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror"
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"Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us."
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"A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions."
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"Violence begins where knowledge ends."
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"Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality."
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"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism."
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"Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence."
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"Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity."
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"Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror."
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"Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love."
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"Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom."
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"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
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"Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality."
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