“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.” HeartPassionEnergyDealsViolenceBloodColorPersonalityIntegrityHundredRedHorseStrongerLoyaltyGenerositySubtleShadeEgoismIndignationShamelessArteriesPastel Author:Vita Sackville-West
“Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.” IfsHas BeensLife IsViolenceConditionsColorBrokenWasteRedBetrayalVisibleNobilityEditedTrue ColorsColors Of Life Author:Alice Meynell
“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.” IfsWellsPersonsPainMy OwnViolenceColorCitizensWalkingPicksDeserveBetrayalToleranceManageFloridaTestamentBricksStoicCourthouses Author:David Simon
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...” MenWorldNeedsYearsFeelingsSufferingCausesCommunityJusticeCompassionViolenceThis WorldColorYears AgoHatredGentleGreekAccomplishedDivisionBulletsMartyrOur CommunityAssassinsLove And Compassion Author:Robert Kennedy
“In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.” PeopleStillsStatesPoliticalPoliticsLinesPoorViewsPrinciplesViolenceColorRepublicanRelationElectionPropertyDemocratSouthIgnorantAfrican AmericanDivisionDividedDisputesRace RelationsCountyCarolinaIntimidationSouth Carolina Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.” TryingLittlesSoulHellViolenceColorTruth IsBlindChaosFlamesCombatSensibleOfferingIrrationalConfusingFrustratingDeafPrecious Gifts Author:Khaled Hosseini
“For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.” MenKindChildrenBookDifferentHomeSchoolNightPoorViolenceColorShotsDestructionSkinsRelationInstitutionsWinterHungerIndifferenceHeatPoisonBombsDestructiveDecayInactionDifferent Colors Author:Robert Kennedy
“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.” MenShouldReasonChristianForceEnjoyPracticeViolenceColorDutyExerciseConscienceSafetyCharityConvictionCreatorMutualTolerationMagistratesForbearance Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783 Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.” LawViolenceColorCrisisAddressesUrgentTransgenderEquality Under The Law Author:Hillary Clinton