Violence

"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 ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars." -  Martin Luther King Jr ...

"Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does." - Madge Micheels-Cyrus ...

"It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them." - Philippa Carr ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"NONVIOLENCE IS NOT A WEAPON OF THE WEAK. IT IS A WEAPON OF THE STRONGEST AND THE BRAVEST." - Gandhi ...

“…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 ...