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You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.
Greg Boyle
You
Sit
Negotiate
Table
Talk
Reason
Gang
Gang Violence
Violence
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
Greg Boyle
Will
Be True
Symptoms
Address
About
Fail
True
Know
Gang
Gang Violence
Violence
Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.
Greg Grandin
Woman
People
Mother
Value
Young
Took
Through
Up
Salvador
America
Disenfranchised
Refugees
Children
Grew
Young Children
Central
Central America
El Salvador
Social
Midwife
Teaching
Standing
Standing Up
Swept
Activist
Her
Cared
Violence
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
Greg Gutfeld
Anger
Language
Progressive
Objectionable
Between
Brakes
Modern
Movement
Which
Then
Believes
Violence
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.
Guy Ritchie
Natural
Own
Think
System
About
Scene
Head
Instinctive
How
How Much
Intellectual
Process
Much
Your
Violence
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
Gwen John
Suffering
Secretive
Passionate
Causes
Reserved
Violence
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.
Gwen Moore
Women
Obligation
Speak
Being Ignored
Congress
Society
Our
Those
Members
Does
Up
Just
Legislators
Being
Against
Act
Ignored
Who
Violence
Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.
Gwen Moore
Women
People
Gender
Country
Rich
Nothing
Well
Knows
Democrats
Just
Against
Republicans
Poor
Rich People
Poor People
Ethnicity
Violence
Levied
Violence against women is as American as apple pie.
Gwen Moore
Women
Pie
American
Against
Apple
Apple Pie
Violence
We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.
Haider al-Abadi
Respect
Law
Every
Society
Rule
Rule Of Law
We Cannot
Security
Security Forces
Segment
Forces
Without
Represent
Stop
Senseless
Cannot
Violence
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt
Power
Opposites
Own
Other
Rules
Absent
Absolutely
Disappearance
Course
Left
Ends
Where
Appears
Jeopardy
Violence
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt
Matter
Become
Revolution
Reputation
International Relations
Relations
Uncertain
More
Instrument
Dubious
Affairs
Domestic
Gained
Appeal
International
Specifically
Violence
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri
History
Heritage
Back
Part
Force
Go
Traditions
Nations
The History Of
Different
Mankind
Use
Violence
Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.
Hassan Rouhani
Criticism
Properties
Different
Public
Violence
Damaging
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
Helen Garner
Women
Disturbed
Very
Against
Violence
Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.
Helmut Kohl
Time
Communism
Will
Finished
Think
Else
Struggling
Fact
He
Beyond
Terms
Gorbachev
Without
Am
Real
His
Off
Bloodshed
Legacy
In Fact
Against
Much
Violence
Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
Government
Political
Party
Conviction
Believe
Respond
Out
Would
Armed
Armed Forces
Democratic
Forces
Encounter
Stir
Political Party
Deep
Violence
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Henry George Bohn
Death
Only
Voice
Throat
Rattle
Often
Reason
Violence
America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.
Henry Giroux
Heroes
Addiction
Evident
Partly
Glorify
America
Chooses
Violence
'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained referent to the mental problems many vets live with when they return home from the war.
Henry Giroux
War
Home
History
Entertainment
Problems
Live
Mental
Cheap
Return
Return Home
American
Aftermath
Many
Film
Violence
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
Henry Rollins
Constitution
Component
Vital
Economic
Could
Part
Identity
American
Stability
American Identity
Much
Violence
I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.
Hideo Kojima
War
Make
Senseless
Games
Reason
Violence
Perhaps the tranquillity of 'Deracine' heightens the violence in 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,' while the intensity of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' makes 'Deracine' all the more serene.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Shadows
More
Perhaps
Makes
Die
Intensity
Tranquillity
While
Heightens
Serene
Twice
Violence
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Preaching
Negroes
Though
Never
Missouri
Gospel
Subjected
Imprisoned
Violence
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
Hjalmar Branting
War
Time
World
Reflection
Resort
Consideration
Broke
Out
No Time
Misleading
Leading
Opinion
Public
Available
Means
Public Opinion
Elemental
Violence
World War
There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.
Hope Jahren
Women
Men
Men And Women
Power
Field
Believe
Imbalance
Would
Born
Following
Follows
Between
Like
Also
Learned
Does
Laboratory
Short
Stops
Us
Workplace
Fundamental
Violence
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