Read quote“The season of violence is over. The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived.”
About Violence
Physical, structural, and societal violence, including its causes and consequences.
The collection
Words on Violence
Read quote“the spirit of revenge and murder”
Read quote“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.”
Read quote“Never in human history have so many died for so little reason.”
Read quote“They need to be ready to fight anybody.”
Read quote“It was disgraceful. If that kind of thing is allowed to continue, it means that a player simply takes his life in his hands when he goes on the ice.”
Read quote“For a long time the streets remained strewn with corpses, as the walks of a garden with dead flowers and leaves.”
Read quote“The foundation of all violence is always made up of good, harmless people who passively accept it.”
Read quote“However, I was stabbed in the back that same afternoon.”
Read quote“People didn’t have the moral sanction to kill even during the Partition.”
Read quote“Crear es romper, y romper con violencia.”
Read quote“The proportion of citizens afraid of being victims of crime is substantially higher than the proportion of persons who are actual victims of violent crime.”
Read quote“But we want peace. We’re tired of war.”
Read quote“Words cannot stop tanks.”
Read quote“If we lose, I will get the stick.”
Read quote“We were becoming so used to the morbidity around us. So when the abduction of those girls happened, I was determined not to allow my society to move on.”
Read quote“Only the Black Woman can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.””
Read quote“I grew up pretty confrontational, and I would love to walk into fights.”
Read quote“I have tried to make it clear that intimidation won’t silence me.”
Read quote“Does she not understand that apartheid is the root of violence, that violence is being committed in the name of apartheid?”
