#violence

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #bad #fight #good #oppression

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#rights #violence #men

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#violence

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#violence

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." (Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#victory #violence #victory

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #born #crime #envy #faith

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#background #been #believed #dialogue #everyone

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#adjustment #continuing #court #gain #involves