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During the European Wars of Religion, both Catholics and Protestants blamed Machiavelli for inspiring acts of violence and tyranny committed by their opponents.
And I think the people who write such messages do not understand that we can feel sorry for and stand in solidarity with victims of terrorism and violence in the Middle East, in Europe, in Asia, in America, wherever, everywhere, equally and simultaneously.
The more I looked into this, I saw how this very real fear of violence, discrimination and this lack of acceptance caused so many of these patients to turn to alcohol and drugs.
The country has known chronic violence since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
The government denied that it was committing any violence, but I continually drove through towns where people described government massacres from a day or a week before.
And a witness can become precious, and their gaze most necessary, when violence passes silently, unseen and unheard.
You know, violence as a political tool is all the rage right now.
Whereas, if we're born with certain instincts, then perhaps some of them might condemn us to selfishness, prejudice and violence.
It's not violence and war, it's not race, it's not gender, it's not Marxism, it's not Nazism.
That day, nearly a quarter million people gathered on the national mall to demand an end to the discrimination, segregation, violence, and economic exclusion black people still faced across the United States.
The march itself proceeded smoothly, without any violence.
This grim dilemma forces Dana to confront the ongoing trauma of slavery and sexual violence against Black women.
She tried not to exacerbate his violence or give him ideas.
What troubles me is not that video game violence is becoming more and more like real life violence, but that real life violence is starting to look more and more like a video game.
You see, in Bulgaria and many other societies, domestic violence is typically seen as a private matter.
"Beat." is our project exploring the ominous silence surrounding domestic violence.
It's a huge point of discussion in trans communities about which bathroom to start using and when, so we don't attract attention that could lead to violence against us.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who die in our cities every single year from violence, and millions more who are killed as a result of car accidents and pollution.
And what we tend to see is a convergence of multiple kinds of risks: income inequality, poverty, youth unemployment, different issues around violence, even exposure to droughts, cyclones and earthquakes.
Almost every single woman in the criminal justice system has been exposed to interpersonal violence and abuse.
And one day that summer 2009, I stepped out into the streets of New York City on my way to volunteer at a domestic violence organization that a woman in my neighborhood had started.
Hate crimes against Muslims in the US increased by 1,600 percent post-9/11, and one in every four women in the US will suffer some form of gender violence.
And it may not seem like it, but Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence is a form of gender violence, given the visibility of Muslim women in our hijabs.
And in those 30 minutes, women would share what brought them to the class to begin with but also various other experiences with violence.
And, as an example, one time in one of those classes, one woman actually started to talk about the fact that she had been in a domestic violence relationship for over 30 years, and it was her first time being able to articulate that because we had established that safe space for her.
But for that to happen, the violence shouldn't happen, and for the violence not to happen, the systems and the cultures that allow for this violence to take place to begin with needs to stop.
The issues were, of course, ethnic sectarian violence.
Rather than recognizable monsters, graphic violence, or startling shocks, the terror of “Lovecraftian” horror lies in what’s not directly portrayed– but left instead to the dark depths of our imagination.
But in this context, the style offers a profoundly overwhelming view of violence, destruction, and casualties.
But even without a close understanding of it’s complicated subtext, Picasso’s work remains a searing reminder of the true casualties of violence.
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