It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

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Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ― Malcolm X

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ― Oscar Wilde

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When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. - Heraclitus

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - Charles Spurgeon

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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. - Huey Newton

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