I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I've always been working on domestic violence prevention. I've always been fighting for people that are either downtrodden or the most vulnerable,… — Catherine Cortez-Masto Copy Share Image
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it?… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical,… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus:… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
“Whereas in ancient agricultural societies human violence caused about 15 per cent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color.… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're from the right or left of politics - there are core objectives we can all agree on:… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“You’ve come to understand gang violence as symptomatic of an abiding civil conflict whose proportions we can only begin to fathom; now… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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