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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence Quotes
Naming violence in its many forms.
Two of these lines sit squarely in policy debate, one arguing that background-check rules for private firearm transfers among relatives wouldn't meaningfully reduce harm, another assessing ISIS as a real but non-central strategic threat, in the same territory as Gun quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
- Cloak
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Breach
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- Nov 07, 2020
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Agreements
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- Nov 07, 2020
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
- Economic Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020