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I want you to imagine what a breakthrough this was for women who were victims of violence in the 1980s.
I've been part of a social movement that has been working on ending violence against women and children.
And for all those years, I've had an absolutely passionate and sometimes not popular belief that this violence is not inevitable, that it is learned, and if it's learned, it can be un-learned, and it can be prevented.
Between 1993 and 2010, domestic violence among adult women in the United States has gone down by 64 percent, and that is great news.
We learned that he had a long history of domestic violence.
The story of domestic violence went from the back page, but actually from the no-page, to the front page.
Before 1980, do you have any idea how many articles were in The New York Times on domestic violence?
How can we get men to talk about violence against women and girls?
And a male friend of mine pulled me aside and he said, "You want men to talk about violence against women and girls.
I believe we can bend the arc of human history toward compassion and equality, and I also fundamentally believe and passionately believe that this violence does not have to be part of the human condition.
And I ask you, stand with us as we create futures without violence for women and girls and men and boys everywhere.
Someone could give a talk and say, look at us, we've got these really sharp teeth and muscles and a brain that's really good at throwing weapons, and if you look at lots of societies around the world, you'll see very high rates of violence.
CR: Well first of all, the evidence for high levels of violence in prehistory is very debatable.
I think we still harbor instincts that can erupt in violence, like greed, tribalism, revenge, dominance, sadism.
Whether it's the ruthless Mexican drugs cartel, the Zetas, who use anonymous companies to launder profits while their drugs-related violence is tearing communities apart across the Americas.
You've got places like Iraq, which is suffering from a high level of sectarian violence, again a breeding ground for terrorism.
Ladies and gentlemen, if we glance to human history, the story of women is the story of injustice, inequality, violence and exploitation.
We will not be intimidated, brought down, diminished, conquered or stopped by acts of violence.
They have less violence and crime in those schools.
MK: That's our political action committee, where we are trying to get members of Congress to take a more serious look at gun violence in this country, and to try to pass some reasonable legislation.
We did everything we could to stop al Qaeda and the foreign fighters that came in as suicide bombers and as accelerants to the violence.
We bled, we died, and we killed to stop that organization from the violence that they were putting largely against the Iraqi people.
The mortality rate for young men in society is six times what it is for young women from violence and from accidents, just the stupid stuff that young men do: jumping off of things they shouldn't jump off of, lighting things on fire they shouldn't light on fire, I mean, you know what I'm talking about.
The FBI's training documents on eco-terrorism are not about violence, they're about public relations.
My particular group's focus was on youth violence, and having been the victim of bullying for most of my life, this was a subject in which I felt particularly passionate.
I do it in the hopes that perhaps someone someday who is compelled to use violence may hear my story and realize that there is a better way, that although I had been subjected to this violent, intolerant ideology, that I did not become fanaticized.
And with that simple fact, I stand here as proof that violence isn't inherent in one's religion or race, and the son does not have to follow the ways of his father.
Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
They are paid less than men for the same work if they're paid at all, and they remain vulnerable because they have no economic independence, and they are constantly threatened by exploitation, violence and abuse.
Some on the right think this because they view Muslim culture as inherently violent, and some on the left imagine this because they view Muslim violence, fundamentalist violence, solely as a product of legitimate grievances.
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