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  • Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  • Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

  • The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

    Children   School   Play  
  • We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

  • No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  • Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

  • There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  • We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

    Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.
  • One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

    Women   Rights   Abuse  
  • I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

    Peace   War   Differences  
  • The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

    Jobs   Father   Greatness  
  • We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

  • In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

    Father   Taken   Land  
    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.87, Cambridge University Press
  • Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

  • Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

  • In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

    Kings   Home   Voice  
    Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
  • How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.

    Christian   Strong   War  
    John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
  • Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  • There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

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