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Letter "V" » Violence
«In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each one was handed a sweet.»
Author: Gideon Hausner
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
chamber, entrance, Entrance to, gas chamber, Poland, The Entrance
«In violence, we forget who we are»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| About:
Violence
«How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Aggression,
Society,
Violence
| Keywords:
aggression, channels, glorification, immoral
«If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Violence
| Keywords:
assassins, plotting, the Action, The Assassin, The Assassins, violent death
«If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.»
Author: Malcolm X
| About:
African American,
America and Americans,
Violence
| Keywords:
abroad, babies, black people, Black woman, defend, defending, defense, draft, drafted, drafting, drafts, In America, right here, The Draft, violent
«If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
kick, month, pant, pants, responsible, responsible for
«If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanisation of feelings, then the ultimate develop»
«If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Struggle,
Violence
| Keywords:
bitterness, desolate, desolated, desolating, legacy, recipients, reign, succumb, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, unborn
«If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Abortion,
Love,
Violence
| Keywords:
abortion, abortions, accepts, country, mother country, teaching, violence
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Manners,
Violence
| Keywords:
gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
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