“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.” MenArtGivenTechnologyGreaterViolenceHabitDrugProveExperimentsPlagueInitialsPsychSpecificationsIrritants Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.” SelfStatesLawOrderViolenceCitizensProveWesternDefenseAcceptedUnwillingSelf DefenseKu Klux Klan Author:Robert F. Williams
“... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.” WayEnoughNaturalViolenceProveSubstitutesUnnatural Book:Before I Kill More ... Source: Before I Kill More ...
“Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.” PeopleMenViolenceProvePrejudice Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke