Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates. Thus, it…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw

“Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to…

— Rebecca Solnit

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

— Ray Stannard Baker

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

— Gwen Moore

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

— Karin Slaughter

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job…

— Barack Obama

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

— Steven Pinker

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

— William Gibson

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld