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“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”

“The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.”

Passion Evil Causes Party Violence Ambition Greed Lust Engaged Contention Lust For Power

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.”

People Answers Wonder Clear Violence Victim Intuition Accidents Clever Engaged Defiance

Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

“The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.”

Heart Violence Engaged Infection Antibodies

Author:Mark Nepo

“Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.”

Should May Facts Problem Force Violence Particular Bigger Police Committed Instance Engaged Officers Incidents Cover Ups Acts Of Violence Bigger Problems Police Violence

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to me, just reading his book, so I don't feel helpless about what I can do about all the violence around me.”

Feels I Can Book Helping Reading Felt Can Do Community Meditation Violence Streets Buddhism Active Engaged Helpless Monk Monasteries Thich Nhat Hanh

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.”

Self Hands Suffering Violence Produce Conflict Behavior Destruction Separation Engaged Sociology Self Destruction Pathology

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.”

Knows Stills Care Violence Policy Taxes Structure Engaged Foreign Policy Platforms I Care Violence Against Women I Still Care

Author:Joe Biden

“[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.”

Community Violence Active Engaged Pacifist

Author:Nat Hentoff