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“The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.”

“I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.”

Thinking World Way Two Moving Effort Half Violence Survival Female Moving Forward Plus Two Ways

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.”

People Accepting Violence Survival Spring Okay Instinct

Author:Jon Lee Anderson

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”

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Book:A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”

World Force Violence This World Depends Survival Relation Shoes Be Good Cows Leather Leather Shoes

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.”

Ifs Want Needs Humans War Enough Earth Violence Products Survival Resources Stress Species Including Population Exploitation Distribution Adequate Hoarding Extraction Stop War

Author:Vern Huffman

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

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Author:A. J. Muste

“It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.”

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Author:Rosario Dawson

“In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.”

Humans Forget Struggle Violence Survival Capacity Tools Damage Crucial Aggression Defects Monstrous Human Capacity

Author:Katherine Dunn

“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”

“Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.”

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Book:The universe story: from the primordial flaring forth to the ecozoic era--a celebration of the unfolding of the cosmos

Source: The universe story: from the primordial flaring forth to the ecozoic era--a celebration of the unfolding of the cosmos