“I don't know how I can feel safe with Donald Trump, who bragged about sexual assault having the most power of anyone in America, maybe the world. What does that say to every child, to every person who has been sexually assaulted, to every person in a domestic-violence situation, to anybody who has to report that kind of crime?” KnowsWorldFeelsKindChildrenPersonsDoeHas BeensI CanAmericaSituationKnow HowViolenceCrimeTrumpSafeReportsAssaultDomestic ViolenceSexuallySexual Assault Author:Jennifer Pozner
“I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?” ThinkingMaySaidStillsI CanActionJobsAmericaResultsSituationViolenceMilitaryKingsAskingArguingSavedBeing TrueLutherMilitary Action Author:Barack Obama
“It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.” IfsLongWould BeAmericaWinningCausesViolenceMovementTrumpGunListsProgressiveShatteredGun ViolenceAnti Gun Author:Chris Murphy
“To the government, terrorism committed by people who happen to be Muslim is not in any way a reflection of legitimate interpretation of Islam. You might find this hard to believe, but if you're doubting any of this, just search your own memory. All the times that we have heard that Islam's a religion of peace and that we can't use the word "terrorism" to describe it and Obama will not use it. And then remember all the times that this administration actually claims that violence by white right-wing white Christians poses a greater threat to the people of America than Islam.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveHardUseGovernmentMightHappensChristianAmericaRememberMemoriesWhiteDoubtGreaterViolenceHeardReflectionClaimsWingsThreatIslamCommittedTerrorismAdministrationInterpretationRight WingHard To Believe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To the government, terrorism committed by people who are Muslim is not a reflection on the legitimate interpretation of Islam, even if Islamic supremacist ideology, which endorses jihad violence - Islam, standard, mainstream Islam endorses jihad violence, but our government doesn't want to admit that or deal with it. Here in America, as in Western Europe, this is the key to understand.” PeopleIfsWantGovernmentAmericaDealsViolenceKeysStandardsReflectionEuropeIslamWesternCommittedTerrorismIdeologyIslamicInterpretationMainstreamJihadWestern Europe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's violence in my culture [from America's South].” AmericaCultureViolenceSouth Author:William Gibson
“America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.” ShouldStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesViolenceGunFlowOrganizationSouthIncludingCriminalsCashMexicoNorth AmericaSmugglingMoney Laundering Author:Alan Bersin
“From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.” HeartAmericaViolenceHatredPrejudiceAnti Semitism Author:Mike Pence
“Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!” AmericaViolenceHatredWelcomeOppression Author:Donald Trump
“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.” ThinkingWayHas BeensTwoAmericaNationsViolenceBloodProtectProjectsWeaponsIndiaClimateClimate ChangeNuclearDestroyedFranceGermanyBritainAustraliaNuclear WeaponsPakistanAnnihilationBelgiumGreat NationsIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.” ThinkingMindBelieveLooksTodayAmericaPleasureViolenceTelevisionHorrorDon't BelieveTerrorAwfulRoutesAmerica TodayVicarious Author:Richard Matheson
“What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.” TwoAmericaLanguageViolenceJudgedBulletsArithmeticTwo Heads Author:Colin Firth
“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.” WellsAmericaCultureViolenceBloodIdentityBuildingNativeGenocideRelativeAshesAncestryPunWreckagePersonal IdentityNexus Author:Anne Waldman
“America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.” WorldDreamAmericaFormCitiesViolenceLandPlanetsJazzMusicalMessBombsContradictionTemplesMediocrityNew WorldCopSophisticatedVersusIndigenousFascinationHandgunsWeaponryConundrumsEtcetera Author:Anne Waldman
“For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.” PeopleLongStillsAmericaBlackViolenceGayDiversityOvercomingDiscriminationAsianHispanic Author:Ron Kind