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I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence. -- Muhammad Ali
Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. -- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm. -- Ari Fleischer
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence. -- Janet Reno
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. -- Michael Palin
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence. -- Darrell Issa
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. -- Elliott Abrams
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?' -- Marsha Norman
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. -- Salma Hayek
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. -- Chaim Potok
The domestic violence policy has been given to our players. My personal view is there's no place in our society for it. I think, especially with the emphasis and education that's out there now, let's hope better light will be shined on this area. -- Mike McCarthy
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. -- Martin Seligman
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. -- Polybius
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. -- Saleh al-Mutlaq
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... -- Hannah Arendt
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world. -- Arun Manilal Gandhi
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream. -- James Wolfensohn

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