- Option
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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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- Denounce
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- Nov 07, 2020
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
- Decreasing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020