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“Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.”

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Julia Bacha is a renowned documentary filmmaker, born in 1980. Her work focuses on conflicts and human rights issues in the Middle East, telling stories that often go unnoticed. more

“I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.”

Thinking Want Should Children School Practice Teacher Violence Behavior Violent

Author:Bill Cosby

“Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.”

Answers Violence Land Messages Dignity Seeking Terrorism Each Day Als Rejected Syria Egypt Extremism Al Qaeda Libya Yemen Tunisia Bahrain

Author:Elliott Abrams

“It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.”

Looks Sometimes Play Violence Scripts Focused Dismay

Author:Richard Armitage

“I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.”

People Violence Islam Islam Is Peace

Book:Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

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“I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.”

Feels Made Found Violence Impossible Changed Personality Conflict Solutions Meaningful Palestinian Distrust Involvement Israeli Seeming Israeli Palestinian Conflict Vantage Point

Author:Jason Alexander

“Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.”

Thinking Has Beens Country Enemy Violence Happened Industry Excuse Mainstream Devoted Muslim Islamophobia Enemy Within

Author:Reza Aslan

“There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.”

Way Believe Mean Democracy Violence Als

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

“In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.”

States Action Order Courses Violence Offers Weak International Blow Protection Strikes Chosen Regimes Atrocities Predatory Kosovo

Author:Noam Chomsky

“My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.”

Want Doe Use Principles Violence Higher Authority Speculation

Author:Noam Chomsky

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