“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.” WayTryingSeemsChristianHeavenPoorRolesBreakViolenceOne ThingBloodCryLateHarmonyMiseryCalmWitnessOne WayToo LateDefendersBreak OutProphetic Author:Jacques Ellul
“You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.” StoriesSufferingCan DoCommunityWorkViolenceBearsTerribleHappeningsHuman RightsIdeologyWitnessFree SpeechReportersTerrible Things Author:Anderson Cooper
“Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.” FatherLanguageViolenceGenerationsLandTearsBearsMarkMurderWitnessPoisonBitternessJewelsLamentYiddishExpulsionPrecious Jewels Author:I. L. Peretz
“Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.” WorldHeartSufferingOur LivesViolenceWeaponsProfoundSpeciesInsightNuclearWitnessNuclear WeaponsBrillianceMagnificence Author:Marianne Williamson
“With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.” WayWantViolenceDisasterWitness Book:Young India Source: Young India
“I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayRealPastFilmViolenceProductsSceneWitnessFilmmakerDriversTaxiBack In The DayScorsese Author:Antoine Fuqua
“The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.” IfsHardHappensGuyCuttingViolenceEffectsFrontsWindHappeningsThings HappenTricksBunchTeethWitnessVisualsKnucklesDenzelVisual Effects Author:Antoine Fuqua
“Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingTryingKindChildrenWarProblemHappensAgeFormStuffViolenceLaborSightStuckWitnessBe YouElsewhereLive Your LifeGlobalizationVictimizationChild LaborSweatshops Author:Robert Hass