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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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- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.
- Crippling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.
- Nov 07, 2020
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020