“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.” – Ellen Key
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“When we are violent to our enemies, we do violence to ourselves. When we brutalize others, we brutalize ourselves. And eventually we run the risk of becoming our oppressors.” – Arundhati Roy
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.” – Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
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“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Nonviolence doesn’t always work — but violence never does.” – Madge Micheels-Cyrus
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“It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.” – Philippa Carr
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Democratic Republic of Congo: 6 of 71 million are dead since 1996 34 armed groups fighting 85% unemployment 2 million raped 1 woman victimized per minute Sexual violence used as weapon to humiliate & discourage
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“NONVIOLENCE IS NOT A WEAPON OF THE WEAK. IT IS A WEAPON OF THE STRONGEST AND THE BRAVEST.” – Gandhi
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“…tragedy has been, and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful; everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can’t become an ax for opportunists to cleave the very Bill of Rights that binds us. America must stop this predictable pattern of reaction; […]
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