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“We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.”

People States Use Violence Ultimate Aim Organized Systematic

Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of Lenin:

“The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.”

Should States Use Violence Impossible Atheism Should Have Aim Affair Positive Atheism Tyranny Reform Justified

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.”

Violence Aim Opponents

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.”

States Law Certain White Race Attention Violence Failing Conditions Materials Theory Offers Aim Strategy Critical Reform Operations White Supremacy Critique Supremacy

Author:Dean Spade

“Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.”

Use Political Order Violence Aim Threat Terrorism Target Civilians

Author:Boaz Ganor

“The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.”

Party Responsibility Violence Achieve Behavior Opposites Stronger Aim Israel Administration Aspiration Convince Palestinian Sharon

Author:Uri Avnery