“Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.” HeartHas BeensWholeRunningTurnsNationsPeaceLinesViolenceProudEuropeTasksThreatSecureGermanyDivisionHarshRestlessUnnaturalUnfinished Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.” PeopleWorldBelieveStatesCausesViolencePolicyMajorsOppressionBitterDivisionPalestinianExpansionIsraeli Author:Clare Short
“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.” WorldTryingForgetPoorSilenceRichViolenceEventsConflictPainfulCelebrateDivisionGapsCongoRich And PoorInexplicableOutburst Book:King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“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
“Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.” WaySocialDifferencesDemocracyViolenceShareHealResolveDivisionRealisticDiverseRepressionSocial Division Author:Condoleezza Rice
“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
“People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.” PeopleMadeSocialViolenceTeamGunWorkersSorryDivisionNaziBarrelsSocial WorkerDaisies Author:Michael Medved