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Some of their cases are questionable and some involve threats and violence.
Because what is taught on the Sabbath leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world.
Many of them had experienced early hardships, anywhere from poverty, abandonment, death of a parent while young, to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence.
When he returns, he may exact vengeance, ensuring his power over the slaves is maintained through violence and terror, to which any slave could be subjected.
Sadness, as opposed to anger or violence, was an expression of suffering that could immediately bring people closer to the suffering person, and this helped both the person and the larger community to thrive.
Around the globe, there are approximately 60 million people who have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence, and persecution.
That persecution may be due to their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and is often related to war and violence.
There are many people around the world who have been displaced because of natural disasters, food insecurities, and other hardships, but international law, rightly or wrongly, only recognizes those fleeing conflict and violence as refugees.
That's why sounding the alarm about the impact of racism on health in the United States, the ongoing institutional and interpersonal violence that people of color face, compounded by our tragic legacy of 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 60 years of imperfect equality, sounding the alarm about this is central to doing my job right as New York City's Health Commissioner.
I knew of Roxbury as an impoverished neighborhood in Boston, plagued by gun violence and drug crime.
So I quit my job in advertising to try and do something about this disgraceful national epidemic, because I came to realize that the challenges to preventing gun violence are actually the same ones that made me love advertising, which is to try to figure out how to engage people.
And you might be surprised to learn, when it comes to gun violence, just how much common ground there is.
The corporate gun lobby has spent billions of dollars blocking the CDC from doing research into the public health epidemic of gun violence; blocking pediatricians from talking to parents about the dangers of guns in the home; blocking smart-gun technology and other technology that would prevent kids from firing parents' guns and would save lives.
But I'm not here to talk about the nightmare of gun violence.
And I'm here to say that for the movement to end gun violence in America, that moment is here.
Enough of the daily terror of gun violence in homes and streets that's claimed the lives of women and young black men in staggering proportions.
And ultimately it dawned on me: what tremendous inspiration to those of us who have this dream to end gun violence.
That is the magnitude of the change we have the potential to create around gun violence.
And that's my dream, that maybe someday, some period TV show will depict the terrible nightmare of gun violence, and a future generation of children might only be able to imagine how terrible it must have been.
And so did another equally improbable, accidental designer, who was also not above using violence to get what he wanted.
But she also felt that these artworks memorialized the victims of these killings as well as other victims of racial violence throughout US history.
Thomas Merton also wrote about wars among saints and that "there is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork.
They're going to go for violence.
I've experienced exploitation and violence at work.
And now, let's add in all of the countries that are currently at war, and the number of people who have either died or have been displaced as a result of that violence.
It is possible to disrupt that cycle of violence with investments in education, in strengthening the rule of law and in economic development, especially for women.
As a social justice comedian, it's my goal to convert these haters, because they hate a lot of things, which leads to negative outcomes, like racism, violence and Ted Nugent.
Which means that no matter how destructive and terrible violence is, if people see it as their only choice, they will use it.
Most of us are concerned with the level of violence in the world.
But we're not going to end war by telling people that violence is morally wrong.
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