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“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”

Years Real Happens Eye America Born Known Violence Risk Strange Died Twenties Things Happen Latin Coward Latin America

Author:Roberto Bolano

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”

Men Humans Born Human Beings Existence Violence Conditions Normal Eating Conscience Fellows Killing Flesh Fellow Man Barbarism Abhorrent

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.”

Born Environment Violence West Conception

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.”

Stars Born Forget Violence Angry Revenge Fragile Retribution Lest We Forget

Author:Sting

“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.”

“The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.”

Heart Whole Moments Nations Born Healing Consciousness Violence Needed Hatred Transformation Manifestation Collectives Vow Collective Consciousness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.”

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Author:Joycelyn Elders

“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.”

People Trying Sometimes Body Seems Born Deals Violence Female Males Extremes Gender Medical Establishment Transgender Psychiatrist Critique Continuum Binary Intersex

Author:Judith Butler

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira