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“As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.”

Spirit Powerful Grace Violence Holy Doctrine Operations Holy Spirit Subtlety Regeneration

Book:The Works of John Owen

Source: The Works of John Owen

“I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.”

Sides Violence Operations Incapable

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.”

Giving School Violence Trials Peaceful Operations Invites

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.”

States Law Certain White Race Attention Violence Failing Conditions Materials Theory Offers Aim Strategy Critical Reform Operations White Supremacy Critique Supremacy

Author:Dean Spade

“But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.”

Violence Institutions Silent Operations Commerce Insensible

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.”

Ifs States Speak Moral Violence Speech Track Terrorism Operations Regimes Continuing Nazi Assault Monopoly Unspeakable

Author:Judith Butler