Code Quote by Jonathan Rauch

“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean in and…

— Diana Oestreich

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

— Thomas Merton

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

— Michael J. Knowles

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

— Jack Donovan

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

— Deeyah Khan

Violence is the language of the unheard.

— Martin Luther King III

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the…

— Ithiel de Sola Pool

“It may seem from a cursory look at the news that the streets are a battleground, a deadly arena of fists, guns and knives.…

— Martin Dougherty