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I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to clearly denounce it. Nobody with any empathy for the plight of people of color in this country could respond the way he did.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

We must zero in on gun violence in our city.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.

I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.