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I'm used to algorithms and data structures and super motivated students, and nothing in my background prepared me to deal with a raging, violent adolescent in the middle of nowhere.
And then they morph into violent extremism.
In a lot of classrooms today, you're not allowed to write about anything that's violent.
Here's another violent case.
I heard it was one of the most violent favelas, because the largest drug cartel controls it.
Because it's not just about not being violent.
And so as we move forward, we see you, America, with your systems of violent oppression trying to beat us into the ground, and still, we rise.
Early data shows that restorative justice builds empathy; that it reduces violent reoffending by up to 75 percent; that it eases PTSD in survivors of the most severe violence.
And more controversially, recently, Apple censored a Palestinian protest app after the Israeli government voiced concerns that it might be used to organize violent attacks.
In fact, on Twitter, there were a number of people who were supportive of the revolution who said, "Well actually, we do want democracy and free expression, but there is some kinds of speech that need to be off-bounds because it's too violent and it might be destabilizing for our democracy.
Me was trying not to be an outcome of my violent past, but the separation that had already occurred between me and my body was a pretty significant outcome.
Across the country, over the last couple of decades, as property and violent crimes have both fell, the number of prosecutors employed and cases they have filed has risen.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common; they are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
If violent actors are the only ones constantly getting front-page covers and attracting international attention to the Palestinian issue, it becomes very hard for nonviolent leaders to make the case to their communities that civil disobedience is a viable option in addressing their plight.
I was playing the violent African, the African terrorist.
But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.
It's where, for months, one of my neighbors left her front door unlocked in one of the most violent and dangerous cities in America so I could have a shower whenever I needed to go to work, as I didn't yet have one.
Study after study very clearly tells you that violent games do not make children violent.
We also must acknowledge, however, that if you have a child predisposed to violence, violent games may help make them a better violent child.
And the atoms themselves are quite violent, but if you fire lasers that are precisely tuned to the right frequency, an atom will briefly absorb those photons and tend to slow down.
They're very useful in violent oppression.
Whether the Egyptians and Tunisians will make it through the transition, or this will end in bloody ethnic and religious conflicts, whether the Syrians will maintain nonviolent discipline, faced with a brutal daily violence which kills thousands already, or they will slip into violent struggle and make ugly civil war.
My friend Maria Stephan's book talks a lot about violent and nonviolent struggle, and there are some shocking data.
We will make the road from violent activities into politics harder to travel.
Did we simply lose our beastly impulses for revenge, for violent rituals, for pure rage?
I stand for my men and women who are prepared to risk their lives for a less violent world for all of us.
This person is not doing anything violent, but they just won't do what we want them to.
She wasn't violent.
BS: Well actually the violent crime rate has remained relatively stable.
The great increase in mass incarceration in this country wasn't really in violent crime categories.
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