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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life-love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire-hoses that tore off their clothes and tumbled them into the streets. They seemed to love the men who raped them, the women who cursed them, love the children who spat on them, the terrorists that bombed them. Why are they showing this to us? Why were only our heroes nonviolent? I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that blacks are in especial need of this morality.
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  2. Anonymous _ The Dhammapada

    In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar.
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  3. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
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  4. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks.
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  5. Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All

    One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
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  6. Sena Jeter Naslund _ Four Spirits

    If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
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