Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf…

For many people, tear gas is their first interaction with state violence. It's the first time they've been treated like an insect, usually by…

— Zeynep Tufekci

The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life.

— Donald Trump

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a…

— Kenneth Kaunda

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

— Alicia Garza

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on…

— Clare Short

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long…

— Henry Giroux

“Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than…

— Judith Butler

State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and cancels…

— Henry Giroux

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies…

— Henry Giroux

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a…

— Henry Giroux

Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.

— Alicia Garza

“If Jack Dylan was Captain Ahab, Bart Breitner was Moby Dick. Jack felt exhilarated, as Ahab must have felt when he finally encountered the…

— Mark M. Bello

If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee