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“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
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“Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.”
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“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
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“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]”
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[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]”
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“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.”
― Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
― Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
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