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“Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.”

Persons Light Purpose Race Violence Danger Needed Ambition Advantage Thirds Peaceful Arrogance Fuel Hostility Third Person Incitement

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”

World Humans Problem Hate Humanity Culture Force Views Race Roles Violence Civilization Mass Hatred Passionate Optimistic Primaries Human Race Primitive Psychosis Great Passion

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.”

“Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.”

War Christian Causes Differences Religious Race Class Violence Arguing Violent Chiefs Civil War Regions Clash Overlooking

Book:Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Source: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

“The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.”

Believe Religion Politics Race History Violence Generations Policy Masters Human Rights Terrorism Ideology Foreign Policy Free Speech Nazi Militant Partisanship Islamists

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.”

People Needs Years Believe Stills Important Ends Today Race Violence Awareness Racism Aspect Slavery Important Things Treated Educated Segregation

Author:Assata Shakur

“I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.”

Whole Race Violence Risk Thousand Emasculation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

Humans Whole Lost Race Violence Ideals Human Race Mexico Typical Favour

Book:Another Mexico

Source: Another Mexico

“Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?”

Needs Humans Reason Together Form Human Beings Race Violence Planets Backgrounds Tolerate Ethnic Background

Author:Tony Bennett

“Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.”

Mean Nations Race Violence Independence Colour Distinction Creeds Units Non Violence

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.”

Ifs Way Nations Race Violence India Non Violence Torches

Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.”

Speak Term Race Violence Police Privilege Considering Nypd

Author:Cecily McMillan

“I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.”