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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"We live in a culture of violence."
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"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
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"I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing."
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"Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!"
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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."
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"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works."
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"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
Music
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
Family
"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
Truth
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love
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