“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.” IfsThinkingStatesLastsChoicesEffortBreakDemocracyViolenceCitizensActivityEconomicsMajorityViolentResistanceOppressionMinoritiesMachineryResorts Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.” Has BeensSoundTalkingViolenceFailingCrimePolicyWasteToughIncreaseFollowingTechniqueMinoritiesProvenTaxpayersPreventionFollow Through Author:Bobby Scott
“I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.” GovernmentReligiousFreedomViolenceGroupsMinoritiesIncidentsComplete Freedom Author:Narendra Modi
“[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.” BelieveWarCountryFactsReligiousVirtueViolenceImpossibleMilitaryCitizensDemandWorshipInstitutionsFilledSoldierPopulationConvincedEndlessIntenseMinoritiesTargetAggressionNobilityDegradeCitizenryEndless War Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.” IfsKindRealCharacterBodyFictionViolenceExampleFitScriptsInstanceNarrativeGenreEncountersMinoritiesNormMessyLisbeth Salander Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].” GivingFirstsWantedLawCasesViolenceHappenedMilitaryLet MeProtectionMinoritiesCommentDictatorshipDictatorPakistanBlasphemyActs Of Violence Author:Shahbaz Bhatti
“Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."” WorldCultureBeliefEasyProgressViolenceExtremesAround The WorldMinoritiesViolence Against WomenSubversiveOther Cultures Author:Gillian Anderson
“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.” WellsMomentsPoliticalReligiousPartyBehindsViolenceUnderstoodAdvantageBlameDenialMinoritiesImmigrantsCyclesPhenomenonOutsidersPolitical PartiesIsmsScapegoat Author:Graciela Chichilnisky