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#1

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence

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#2

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

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#3

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence

953 likes

#4

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: poverty, violence

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#5

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
― Yehuda Bauer

tags: holocaust, inspirational, violence

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#6

“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

tags: growth, violence

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#7

“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.”
― Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads

tags: religion, violence

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#8

“The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps”
― James Gilligan

tags: humiliation, violence

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#9

“Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

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#10

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue

870 likes

#11

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: courage, crucifixion, truth-telling

584 likes

#12

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
― Warren Wiersbe

tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling

590 likes

#13

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arguing, controversy, dislike, opinions, truth

391 likes

#14

“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”
― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

tags: revolution, truth-telling

275 likes

#15

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: truth-telling

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#16

“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

tags: activism, dissent, patriotism, protest, truth-telling

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#17

“Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: truth-telling

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