#iole

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. ↗

— Eric Holder

#american people #approaches #come #common #common sense

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#different #force #go #heritage #history

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. ↗

— Maynard Jackson

#best #changing #how #live #means

Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew--moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ↗

— Zsuzsi Gartner

#humor #self-image #violence #equality

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering. ↗

— Gwen John

#passionate #reserved #secretive #suffering #violence

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart. ↗

— Brian Jones

#circumstances #death #heart #just #like

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#impossible #inevitable #make #peaceful #revolution

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. ↗

— Bruce Kent

#i #intrinsically #man #optimistic #think

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy. ↗

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

#hatred #help #illiteracy #intolerance #needy