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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. -- Barack Obama
In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home. -- Millicent Fenwick
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. -- Dennis Prager
Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words. -- Elie Wiesel
The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates. -- Shakira
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. -- Jonathan Sacks
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another. -- Thomas Merton
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim. -- John T. Flynn
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly. -- Ayn Rand
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. -- John Foster Dulles
I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another. -- Timothy Findley
I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points. -- Nat Hentoff
Comparison is an act of violence against the self. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. -- Gwen Moore
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. -- Tom Stoppard
Violence against even one human being is violence against all. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women. -- Pearl Cleage
I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children. -- Lucy Lawless
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. -- Helen Garner
Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it. -- Jim Goad
Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters. -- Alexander Anderson
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women. -- Caprice Bourret
Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. -- Debasish Mridha
This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable. -- Junichiro Koizumi
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. -- Bryant McGill
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. -- Eve Ensler
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. -- Lee Maracle
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society. -- Pope John Paul II
I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others, -- Tracy Morgan
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. -- Tony Porter
Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls. -- Amanda Lindhout
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women -- Nicole Kidman
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women. -- Katha Pollitt
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. -- Eve Ensler
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. -- Bryant McGill
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. -- Noam Chomsky
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. -- Paul Watson
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence. -- Rory Miller
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. -- Gloria Steinem
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women. -- Carlos Andres Gomez
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel. -- Jane Harman
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. -- Louise Erdrich
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people. -- Edward Abbey
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All. -- Hannah Arendt
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. -- Samantha Power
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself. -- Emma Thompson
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. -- B. F. Skinner
Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. -- Jean Kilbourne
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. -- Gwen Moore
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals. -- Robert Thurman
Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters. -- Rachel Maddow
Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; itâ??s the war against it that does all the violence. -- Lawrence Reed
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. -- Nicole Kidman
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. -- Edmund Morris
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. -- Henry A. Kissinger
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. -- Patricia Ireland
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women. -- Eve Ensler
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry. -- Russell Simmons
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it. -- Zainab Salbi
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind. -- Gabrielle Union
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -- Michelle Bachelet
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. -- Ban Ki-moon
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. -- Robert Spencer
The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet. -- Eve Ensler
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. -- Donna Leon
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced. -- Zainab Salbi
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. -- Tariq Ramadan
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. -- Ilya Yashin
The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself. -- Kathy Change
The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. -- Dustin Clare
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them. -- Nelson Mandela
Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims. -- Boaz Ganor
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. -- Eve Ensler
I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers. -- Jerry Vlasak
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. -- Edward Coke
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity. -- Angelina Jolie
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself. -- Phillip Moffitt
Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision. -- Warren Farrell
We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general. -- Vladimir Lenin
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead. -- Snoop Dogg
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. -- King Hussein I
When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment. -- Nabil Elaraby
As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that, -- Gene Sharp
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others. -- Arno Gruen
As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence. -- Nicole Kidman
I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color. -- Hillary Clinton
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud. -- Henry Hazlitt
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government. -- Ban Ki-moon
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives. -- George W. Bush
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. -- Katherine Dunn
Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge. -- Ezra Miller
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I like parties, but I don't like pinatas, because the pinata promotes violence against flamboyant animals: 'Hey, there's a donkey with some pizzaz. Let's kick his ass!' -- Demetri Martin
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. -- Joe Biden
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies. -- Robert Jeffress
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games. -- Wayne LaPierre
The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference. -- Wendy Shalit
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally. -- Zainab Salbi
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. -- Jenny Shipley
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence. -- Neil Fox
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. -- John Boehner
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. -- Gloria Steinem
Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it. -- Tupac Shakur

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