Stanley Crouch Quotes About Violence
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Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
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