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“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.”

World Firsts Children Littles Government Today Nations Voice My Own Violence Praise Raises Presses Damn Curse Brown Oppressed World Today Ghetto Inconsistent Vietnamese Damn You

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.”

Firsts My Own Consciousness Focus Violence Remove

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times”

My Own Violence Shooting

Book:Niki de Saint Phalle: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Source: Niki de Saint Phalle: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

“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.”

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Author:David Simon

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“I didn't want to be a victim of my own message [in Trust film]. I didn't want to take advantage of a 14-year-old actor. I didn't want there to be any nudity, or any real overt violence. I think it's more terrifying that there is no violence, in that moment. There's control and there's power, but there's no violence.”

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Author:David Schwimmer

“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”

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Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.”

Feels Years Humans Done Age Wanted My Own Human Beings Deals Violence Heard Like You My Family Behave Niche Unlovable

Author:Sam Hamill

“I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.”

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Author:Paul Kagame