“It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.” WorldLongHas BeensSeemsViolenceNumbViolence Against WomenStop Violence Against Women Author:Zainab Salbi
“Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.” ThinkingKindHas BeensBookReasonStoriesKidsForeverViolenceOriginalsViolentTalesStorytellingFairyFairy TaleHaving KidsCathartic Author:Jane Levy
“Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.” ThinkingHas BeensCountryEnemyViolenceHappenedIndustryExcuseMainstreamDevotedMuslimIslamophobiaEnemy Within Author:Reza Aslan
“Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.” Has BeensViolenceArmsTrainingWesternColombia Author:Noam Chomsky
“Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.” HumansHas BeensEnoughViolenceSubjectsJudgingDignityConvincedHumiliationHuman DignityActs Of ViolencePersonal Dignity Author:Noam Chomsky
“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.” Has BeensDoneLawViolenceObeyingBreaking The LawObeying The Law Author:Robert Frost
“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.” Has BeensVoiceViolence Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.” PeopleYearsHas BeensImportantBookRealizingResultsNovelViolenceHugeBattleHollywoodComicComic BookSuperheroBreakthroughGraphicGraphic NovelsDifferentiationPerdition Author:Michael Uslan
“According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.” MenYearsHas BeensStatesProblemThreeUnitedUnited StatesFourViolenceRiskGunVictimPartnersFactorsIntimateDomestic ViolencePublic HealthHealth Problems Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.” IfsNeedsHas BeensEndsCultureSilenceBreakViolenceWallOppositesPoliceBlueDecadesPolice Violence Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.” WayTryingHumansLongHas BeensRealCountryHuman BeingsViolenceNewsLong TimeConsequenceSickConsequences Of Violence Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.” PeopleWayWantHas BeensBookSoulCountryStatesBlackCommunityViolenceInvolvedPeriodsVoteClintonSouthCastsI RealizedSpokesGangJerseyLatinoRidersNew JerseyOrganizerCaucusSacramentoNewarkGang Violence Author:Tom Hayden
“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.” PeopleYearsBelieveHas BeensHardStatesWould BeClassFocusViolenceNew YorkCostLateAdultsBillsPrisonAverageFolksMeaningfulPunishmentCaliforniaPreventionRehabilitationHard To BelieveNew York State Author:James Fox
“Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.” WorldLooksHas BeensTodayAmericaViolenceDangerJudgmentClintonChiefsRegionsOur WorldFlawedWorld TodayDiplomatsHillary Rodham Clinton Author:Chris Christie
“Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done.” ChildrenHas BeensCountryDoneMotherBlackGoneViolenceCollegeTrumpMetsHistoricalClinton Author:Donna Brazile
“Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.” WorldHumansHas BeensStatesReasonHalfPovertyViolenceDevelopmentPopulationInequalityPrimariesRegionsHuman DevelopmentUnrestWorld PopulationHuman PopulationWorld Life Author:Abdul Kalam
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.” IfsHas BeensStoriesViolenceImpossibleDogHorrorHorseValleysCould Have BeenHorror Stories Author:Ti West
“I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or two people who complained that I didn't do justice to the many good people who lived in the holler, most of the local objections have been aimed at the violence and foul language.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTwoLanguageBitsJusticeViolenceLocalsWorriedExceptionGood PeopleFoulObjectionsFoul Language Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.” YearsHas BeensHomeStrongInterestNaturalViolenceFieldsBrotherAdvantageEightThirtyFortyTopicsBelts Author:Jim Goad
“Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?” FirstsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentEconomyViolenceRacismDemocratAfrican AmericanUnemploymentAmerican President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensHandsAmericaTurnsBlackWhiteFourViolenceHundredVictimFollowingIgnorantBlack PeopleCheeksPreacherWhite ManBrutesGodlikeTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“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
“The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensStatesWholeSidesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesViolenceSeeingMembersAreasBordersFrightenedDividedMexicoComing BackFamily MembersSiegeSaddenedSpaniardsUnder SiegeI Feel Sad Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.” Has BeensFacesPoliticalSidesLeaderViolenceSilentViolentResistanceAbandonPalestinianCiviliansIsraeliRepressionCondemningEndorsingRemaining Silent Author:Yousef Munayyer
“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 think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.” ThinkingWayLongHas BeensRunningPovertyIssuesViolenceLandDevelopmentResourcesIrelandOwnershipScotlandAlcoholismSectarianismNorthern Ireland Author:Irvine Welsh
“Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the perceived legitimacy of organized protest and resistance. Organized, disciplined nonviolent resistance is alive and well, and we see it all around us in cities across the country.” WellsHas BeensMadeCountryCitiesTalkingAliveViolenceBenefitsResistanceOrganizedProtestLegitimacyNonviolent Resistance Author:Nate Powell