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Instead, we must offer them a tool that's at least as powerful and as effective as violence.
The greatest hope for humanity lies not in condemning violence but in making violence obsolete.
So we don't know that much about the history of violinists but we do know that when we entered the state of New Jersey there is an uptick in violence.
And she had a theory that small, uncivil actions can lead to much bigger problems like aggression and violence.
I now call it "digital domestic violence."
And it turns out that the greatest predictor of a movement's decision to adopt nonviolence or violence is not whether that group is more left-wing or right-wing, not whether the group is more or less influenced by religious beliefs, not whether it's up against a democracy or a dictatorship, and not even the levels of repression that that group is facing.
The psychologist Steven Pinker and others have shown that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
Brandon shared the story of a young man from Brownsville who had witnessed violence firsthand, by witnessing a man being thrown off of a roof.
There's more violence and racism.
Family violence, domestic violence, and divorce have torn apart families.
I was a young man who believed that jihad is to be understood in the language of force and violence.
So my plea today to everyone, especially those who sincerely believe in Islamist jihadism ... refuse dogmatic authority; let go of anger, hatred and violence; learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior.
And there's obviously a sexual violence component to this, which is that this kind of surveillance can be used most effectively against women and other people who can be shamed in our society.
As they end up failed by the education system, they're on the streets where they're vulnerable to violence, police harassment, police brutality and incarceration.
"These people come from a culture of violence, a culture of poverty.
I guess we've all become so numb to the hatred that we couldn't have ever imagined it turning into fatal violence.
When white men commit acts of violence in the US, they're lone wolves, mentally ill or driven by a parking dispute.
The least we can do is talk about it, because violence and hatred doesn't just happen in a vacuum.
We had some informal constraints in place, but we enforced all of our trade with violence or social repercussions.
A crisis of demographics, a crisis of education, a crisis of employment, a crisis of violence and a crisis for girls.
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about violence.
And hundreds of millions are facing exploitation and abuse, and violence.
Every seven minutes, an adolescent boy or girl somewhere in the world is killed by an act of violence.
And maybe you've never faced violence, or prejudice, or discrimination.
And everywhere, the awareness of the level of police violence that black women experience is exceedingly low.
There's police violence against African-Americans, and there's violence against women, two issues that have been talked about a lot lately.
Police violence against black women is very real.
The level of violence that black women face is such that it's not surprising that some of them do not survive their encounters with police.
In 2014, the African-American Policy Forum began to demand that we "say her name" at rallies, at protests, at conferences, at meetings, anywhere and everywhere that state violence against black bodies is being discussed.
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