| 单词 | violence |
| 例句 | “What I’m saying is, Daniel did make a choice. It’s true that he hit something, and violence in the school is always scary,” Ms. Dale pauses. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She found her house a stable of filth and abomination and she set to cleaning it with the violence and disgust of a Hercules at labor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z An even greater number probably died from human violence, animal attacks, hunger, thirst, and disease. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Another possibility is that competition for resources flared up into violence and genocide. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Morales had been right when he predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt with terrible violence. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He included the bombings of black homes and businesses, teargassings, shootings, physical violence—all committed against black people between the months of March and September 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The violence inside was almost cartoonish, like the work of some mad impressionist who painted only in red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was preferable for Glerk, who felt that violence, while sometimes necessary, was uncouth and uncivilized. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Once again worldwide attention was drawn to violence in the United States being carried out in the name of white supremacy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The germ of creation lies in violence, a voice answered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother’s parents were deeply embittered by how the promise of freedom and equality following slavery ended when white Southern Democrats reclaimed political power through violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Once the people I knew died of suicide and motorcycle crashes and other forms of violence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Not “oppression,” not “the threat of violence,” not even “lynching,” but a horrific physical image. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He allows him a random act of violence that removes him from the dilemma of his life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Every day we learn about the terrible violence in our world—the fighting and the wars. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z To tamp down on the violence, they would need assistance from the state militia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’m fourteen, and people think I should be scared because I’m surrounded by violence, but around here it’s an everyday thing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Ever since Independence we’d heard stories of violence between blacks and whites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner’s behaviour laid them all under. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z She went on, “That smell of burning tires never quite leaves you. The smell is forever associated for me with political violence.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Some white people—primarily members of the Ku Klux Klan—responded with violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Yet, after this act of sudden violence, the boys were well treated. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I told them that my release alone would not stem the violence in the country or stimulate negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A Democratic alderman elected by the residents of Packingtown threatened escalated violence if the mayor did not take action: “We must defend ourselves if the city authorities won’t protect us.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “She is determined to make it a peaceful march. She has ordered all who follow her to bring no weapons and even asked them to sign pledges against violence.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Consider lynching, the Klan’s hallmark sign of violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I want to eradicate the violence that is going on in my neighborhood and give back to my community the way John Tu has given back to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Neither city nor business services had been able to get into the neighborhood while the uncontrolled violence was occurring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All this information we get in gory detail until we too become desensitized to the violence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z John's education had led not to liberation and progress but to violence and tragedy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She doesn’t play when it comes to violence because her parents got real extra when they tag-team-robbed a convenience store, assaulting the owner and his twenty-year-old son. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And if so, was that because the job tends to attract tough guys predisposed to violence? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It also shows us chaotic violence on a scale hitherto undreamed of. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The inspector may have feared violence which was more easily dealt with outdoors where there was more space to make an arrest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Didn’t he say that it’s our culture which allows us to believe that violence is an aberration, and that the primitive warfare we choose to ignore is a manifestation of nature, biology, and instinct? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He rode the trains very infrequently, for there was a growing anger against tramps, based on the angry violence of the I.W.W. and aggravated by the fierce reprisals against them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The War on Drugs has greatly exacerbated the problems associated with drug abuse, rather than solved them, but the fact remains that the violence associated with the illegal drug trade is nothing to be celebrated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Though he had not attempted escape, nor offered violence to his captors, he would ignore their commands oft as not or reply with muttered curses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Always the volunteers faced the looming threat of violence from white vigilantes determined to put an end to “race-mixing.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled his scent of stale tobacco and onion, and his violence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence drew television crews, which beamed these powerful images to a stunned nation and beyond. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They insisted that the ANC must renounce violence and give up the armed struggle before the government would agree to negotiations — and before I could meet President Botha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Seventy-two percent of Colorado voters had approved an eight-hour workday, but the mine owners ignored them and paid Pinkerton detectives to incite violence and blame it on the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Our mandate was to wage acts of violence against the state — precisely what form those acts would take was yet to be decided. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the violence in Soweto intensified, my wife permitted a group of young men to act as her bodyguards as she moved around the township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to Redbeard, the one who loved violence, the one carrying the tongs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What is worse—a world where Hideo fights against violence, or a world where Zero fights using it? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The figure, dimly seen in lamplight, pulled one oar free of the lock and suspended it above my hands, prepared to do violence to my grasping fingers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Maybe I should thank him for showing me that any power of one person over another is built on the threat of violence. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Today, in New York’s subways, that same encounter doesn’t lead to violence anymore. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was serious about taking the violence to a new level. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The races were segregated by a dense, carefully woven web of laws, signs, partitions, arrows, ordinances, unequal opportunities, rules, insults, threats, and customs—often backed up by violence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Let us recognize that the first right of every American is to be free from domestic violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In order to forestall outbreaks of retaliatory violence, we arranged a week-long series of mass rallies and demonstrations throughout the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She says they’re evil, that I shouldn’t see all that violence. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He claimed to have been in fear for his life and to only have triumphed through righteous violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we save lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had clearly met with violence, and lent an aspect of violence to the whole. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He said that the violence of the system needed to be answered with the violence of revolution. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambush was on her mind, for obvious reasons, and she couldn’t reconcile the violence of the morning with the quiet of this night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He left Virginia, he said, to spare his children the ravages of prejudice and its bully partner, violence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They did all these “stop the gun violence” talks, like we were to blame for that boy’s death. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z During a radio interview in Fort Lauderdale, one caller told him, referring to the boats of Haitian refugees fleeing the violence and poverty, “We can’t have Haitians coming into our country.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “What my brother tricked Adiah into doing to Lkossa nearly a hundred years ago was...cataclysmic, an unprecedented violence against the innocent.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z If his eating habits were a movie, they’d be rated R for violence. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When asked if he anticipated the violence, she pressed her lips into a line and said no more. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mass funerals for the victims of state violence became national rallying points. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “When we began the ride I think all of us were prepared for as much violence as could be thrown at us,” said James Farmer, an organizer of the first Freedom Ride. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I put Tommy’s letter near the top because he drew parallels between the war in Bosnia and senseless gang violence. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Shawn said it was time to mount, and I climbed onto the barn roof, sure the corral would descend into violence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In this scenario, the introduction-of a gun may well lead to more violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Dr. King made it clear that any protester confronted with violence by police or the Klan was to respond with nonviolence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z First, he thanked his recent adversary Howard Fuller for preventing violence on the previous night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And now by violence they lock us in—you and me, old man: subdue our vile un kingly voilence. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Hitler's rule, this meant ridding the country of anyone who was not of pure German blood through terrorist tactics, like intimidation and savage violence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I recognized it by its right ear, which was badly torn, its healed jagged edge testimony to old violence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Robin and Idwar were too young to remember the violence that came raining down on the family’s village in the form of fire and metal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Although once or twice the light chaise slurred as it caught in great ruts made by the disabled Lyte coach, there was no other sign of the late violence.The mob was utterly gone. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on I encountered other Bigger Thomases who did not react to the locked-in Black Belts with this same extremity and violence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, though, they abhor gangs and the violence associated with inner-city life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In Natal, fear of violence and intimidation kept many of our voters at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing about it made me realize how susceptible we are to violence. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The drugs, the violence, the racial tension, the Irish mob—how do you explain who runs the town when you could get killed just for saying the words Irish mob? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the details of her experience were so painful that we could no longer look past the violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The government was charging all one hundred fifty-six of us with high treason and a countrywide conspiracy to use violence to overthrow the present government and replace it with a Communist state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Europa, Leda, Semele, Alcmene, and the Nazarene girl, much as the cowbird, first in deception and violence, doth force the female of other species to hatch its young. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Virtually all traces of the grandfather’s life and death—of passions and turmoil and possible brutal violence—had seemingly been washed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I take her to a movie, checking it first for violence, sex and death, and to a Chinese restaurant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For a foot soldier, however, violence served a purpose. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But despite the intentions of the marchers, I could hardly believe the chaos, confusion, noise, and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It said,” my father says, “that Marcus’s violence and cruelty toward his son is the reason his son chose Dauntless instead of Abnegation.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As I sat next to her, trying to spin a basketball on my index finger, I heard my grandparents talk about how drugs and violence had slowly crept in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One of the few ways that a foot soldier could distinguish himself—and advance in the tournament—was by proving his mettle for violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Of course you hold violence in your hands, she meant. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The school had a zero-tolerance violence policy, but it also had a zero-tolerance bullying policy, and since Adam had started all the drama, the school decided that he was technically responsible. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I’m close to Tyler, Richard and Tony, and from them, as well as from other family, I hear of the ongoing drama on the mountain—the injuries, violence and shifting loyalties. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I attempted to remind the chief of the discussions that we had in Durban about taking up violence, but he did not recall them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. But it was up to the jury, and they decided that Marcus was capable of all kinds of violence, even the worst kind.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Koffi felt her last bit of resolve abandon her in a rush, as though someone had wrenched it from her with a violence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And there are other people who believe that there will always be violence and war, that we humans are selfish and greedy and can never change. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z For the next ten days, Chicago would remain a battle zone, with sporadic incidents of violence taking place throughout the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z One commissioner, Clyde Sellers, warned, “If segregation barriers are lifted, violence will be the order of the day.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But the white reporters kept wanting me linked with that word “violence.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s ironic that while the Freedom Writers were taking a symbolic stand against violence in our candlelight vigil at the Washington Monument, a murder was being carried out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Shadrack’s earlier violence had coincided with a memorandum from the hospital executive staff in reference to the distribution of patients in high-risk areas. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The violence erupted again, with both sides going on the attack. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Paradise became a magnetic field for the possibility of violence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some officers fed on the violence, I knew. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wary of potential violence, several states implemented reforms to eliminate the most abusive practices. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The predictable response is: What about gangsta rap and the culture of violence that has been embraced by so many black youth? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In general, these individuals are predisposed to severe lapses in ego-control which makes possible the open expression of primitive violence, born out of previous, and now unconscious, traumatic experiences.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I need the violence of video games and the smell of this basement and the familiarity of Nick and Leah. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z You can imagine the kind of tension that violence caused. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Even though the United Nations and the National Guard were very successful at stopping the violence, the intolerance is still there. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My life was the immediate negotiation of violence—within my house and without. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Although we had been told that the Taliban had fled, there was still violence in the valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Across the country, some equated the uniformed black soldiers with people who had stepped beyond their place, provoking slights and even violence against them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had been silent, set apart from the violence of their emotion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The coroner, unable to find any marks of violence, theorized that Holmes had locked the girls in the big trunk, then filled it with gas from a lamp valve. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was told that because of his past record and the violence of this attack, he would be kept locked up while prosecutors filed a motion to transfer him to adult court. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There was a current of electric hatred between the two of them that only violence could ground. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They must respond to violence with nonviolence; discipline must be maintained at all cost. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened in Harlan wouldn’t become clear until you looked at the violence from a much broader perspective. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I’m surprised to hear him not take my side—especially against Jacqui, and especially on the subject of violence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She had a sudden impulse to make a cut into the earth, just take a knife and slice open the grassy surface, echoing the violence of war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It’s easy for me to lie to everyone else, but it’s more difficult to lie to her, the only person who knew all the secrets of our Abnegation house, the violence contained within its walls. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Parry: Well, I’ve been a public defender here for a little under four years, and in just four years I’ve seen the type of violence increase and the amount of violence increase. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that I was going to live around shooting and violence all my life. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun did so, in the company of a dozen other men, and with such numbers he did not fear strip searches or violence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She was intensely worried about her daughter bringing a son into America, because she could not save him, she could not secure his body from the ritual violence that had claimed her son. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The mass action campaign culminated in a general strike on August 3 and 4 in support of the ANC’s negotiation demands and in protest against state-supported violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Local police acknowledged that no significant level of violence was associated with crack in Seattle and that other drugs were causing more hospitalizations, but steadfastly maintained that their deployment decisions were nondiscriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "Words of a brave man, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. Trellis. It's clear your actions might have prevented additional violence." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If we truly want to end violence in our communities, we must come to understand, as discussed in the final chapter, the ways in which mass incarceration increases—not decreases—violence and multiplies its harms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Violence and the potential for violence were a stress on inmates and officers, but not on all of them, and not all the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A generation of children grew up who knew no more of violence than picking flowers and tumbling on the sands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z While millions across the world struggle with illiteracy, poverty, violence and war, let us remember that we have the power, determination and creative minds to help fight and eliminate those social problems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We ought never excuse violence or tolerate behavior that jeopardizes the safety and security of others. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Stringer was the most aggressive medic Kelley knew: quick to anger, lightning-fast to resort to violence, but the music mellowed him out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Back in the Black Belt, rumors of violence spread. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was clear that violence was the number one issue in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was caught in a particular moment of national history, smack in the middle of a city known as the nation’s hotbed of racial injustice and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Abjuring his past, he floated from his home village in a canoe made from white stone and wandered the Adirondack and Allegheny forests, then a place of constant violence and, apparently, intermittent cannibalism. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the quickness of the violence, the blade of it, arrested her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was animal instinct, learned in a world where violence was always lurking and waiting to erupt. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Nothing would ever exactly fit together and solidify; she would never grow calm, never feel at ease; life was a hell on earth of loose ends, uncertainty, violence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Its day of emergence in the morning sky was considered an occasion on which warfare and violence was likely to be rewarded—an optimal day to attack a city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many of the incidents indicated to me that the police, rather than quelling violence, were fomenting it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Janza let his fists fly in a flurry of violence, hitting Renault almost at will, on the head, the cheeks, once in the stomach. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me realize that senseless violence doesn’t only happen in history books or movies. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Jack’s parents were concerned about increasing acts of violence against Polish Jews in other parts of Poland, but they did not speak of these things in front of their children. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The school had a zero-tolerance policy on violence. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He probably didn't want the level of violence and sex among both prisoners and guards to be documented. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But there was no need now of any violence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Ares, really a bully at heart and unable to bear what he brought upon unnumbered multitudes of men, fled up to Zeus in Olympus and complained bitterly of Athena’s violence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He said he had been struck on his head, but there were no external signs of violence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For J. T., violence was a distraction from the business at hand; he would have preferred that his members never fired a single gunshot. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It is an international activist movement that began in the African American community and campaigns against oppression and systemic violence against black people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Cleopatra, who became a vocal advocate for violence prevention, also returned a couple of times to attend different meetings on the issue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The uprising triggered riots and violence across the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pacifism is the belief that any violence, including war, is wrong under any circumstances. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, the theater emptied, Mr. Turner shouting to us that we, at least, must remain stationary and minimize, rather than enhance, the violence of the rout. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling cross-cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies and found that cultures that lavish physical affection on infants tend to be disinclined to violence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Violence just makes more violence just makes even more violence,” she whispered through silent tears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That applies also to Palestinians to whose plight I am sensitive but whose methods I deplore when they lead to violence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The death of one of their band had roused the enemy to even greater violence and frenzy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to depend on someone else’s chance violence again—violence that, if it came, could be more effective than I wanted. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then another 350 armed paratroopers circled the school building to protect the black students from violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Until the United States cured its “Mississippiitis”—that disease of segregation, violence, and oppression that plagued America like a chronic bout of consumption—the paper declared, it would never merit the position of world leadership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The kind with no cussing or sex or violence. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was staggering to contemplate the accrued tales of dysfunction, pain, and violence that had preceded these prison terms—and, frankly, easier not to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First, one of the firefighters who had aimed the water hoses at us on May 2, 1963, came to my church and apologized to the congregation for his part in the violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Federal troops put down the strike in many cities, leading to more violence and several workers’ deaths. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z And everything he loved, everything he had shown the visiting elf was turned into a grotesque cartoon, a bloody comedy of violence. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He tried to hold himself firm, but after a while the strain became too great, and a shudder shook his body with sudden violence. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking figuratively, they were soon chronic alcoholics, men who lived by violence, through extreme action and sensation, through drowning daily in a perpetual nervous agitation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z So it may be that by the mid-1940s, when Stetson Kennedy was trying to bust up the Klan, it didn’t really need to use as much violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Only two skeletons showed clear marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their older siblings and aunts would sometimes provide temporary shelter, but the living situation would get disrupted by violence or death, and so Trina would find herself wandering the streets again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As always seemed to be the case, a horizontal plume of condensation streamed from the summit like frozen smoke, betraying the violence of the jet-stream winds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing--only the picture of Dan Cody, a token of forgotten violence staring down from the wall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “No idea. This is Bijan’s train of thought. I haven’t seen any of them—too much violence for my moviegoing sensibilities. Now let’s hear a word from our sponsor, Zombie Killers Part Six.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Imbuing violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Silence! This violence is all most repulsive:” and so, no doubt, she felt it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Mixed images of violence ran like sand through his mind, dry and fast, vanishing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Placing a bomb anywhere in Dothan, even in a poor section of town, posed a different kind of threat than “typical” domestic violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I think I see what Keegan is getting at—humans have innate impulses toward violence, yet today we try to deny it—but the momentum of his presentation pushes in the other direction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Had I protested that I would like Dolores to go along, we might have been spared a display of violence and near tragedy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Botha wanted the onus of violence to rest on my shoulders and I wanted to reaffirm to the world that we were only responding to the violence done to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence and bombings ceased, and it was as if we were a nation reborn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the violence of motion from the tanker’s bow wave the candle and matches that had been on the table had been thrown off. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I called these men "skulls" and they were freaks for violence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z More important than even these excellent results is the fact that the modified program worked out by these Nova Scotian entomologists is not doing violence to nature’s balance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had been adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent when he was seventeen, for multiple convictions for arson, theft, aggravated assault, gun violence, and, finally, assaulting a police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Eminent Persons Group had come with many questions involving the issues of violence, negotiations, and international sanctions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that Johnson, a Democrat sympathetic to the South, didn't do enough to protect freed Blacks and stop violence and unrest in the defeated southern states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And black leaders, aware of Clark’s segregationist views and explosive temper, expected him to display, for the world to see, the violence that assailed blacks when they tried to exercise their right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Youth Corps were involved, however, in C.P.’s most blatant act of violence, a brutal and stupid affair that was given an undeserved element of romance with the label “the shoot-out.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Many of these artists articulate a sharp critique of American politics and culture, and some reject the misogyny and violence preached by gangsta rappers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Besides gang violence, domestic violence, or spousal abuse, is common. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z With violence mounting and negotiations stalled, protesters asked one another how this would end. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Why must I be witness to so much violence! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A third survey of 400 skeletons from various pre-agricultural sites in the Danube Valley found evidence of violence on eighteen skeletons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The police responded with anger and defensiveness; violence, they said, was a tragic but inevitable part of police work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But with a gang war, sales plummet because customers are so scared of the violence that they won’t come out in the open to buy their crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Complaining to police of potential violence once more, the packers were successful in having the parade permit denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was no sign of violence, no wrecks, nothing like that. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z This argument is often buttressed by claims that most citizen complaints about illegal drug activity come from ghetto areas, and that the violence associated with the drug trade occurs in inner cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the next day, news of what had taken place at the beach spread throughout the city, setting off a firestorm of violence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z School had been closed a while, for the break and because the nuns feared violence. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And they cheer on our boys, inciting them to violence and, we hope, victory. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a few pockets of sporadic violence remained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z From the earliest days of colonial settlement and black slavery, African Americans have faced violence and setbacks even as progress has been made. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “No need for violence. I’ll double the reward if your son hands over the cub to us. And then we’ll forget this...er, incident...ever happened.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z How could he be so passionately against violence at home, and yet say so little about Vietnam? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Francisco Pizarro, now governor of Peru, was learning that to avoid outbreaks of feckless violence he needed to keep his men occupied at all times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But somehow, he stayed on his feet, unharmed, and unleashed a hurricane of violence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was an iteration, a simultaneous arm and evolution of hip-hop, and, coolest of all—it was originally used as an alternative to physical violence. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Though Paton did not himself support violence, he said the ac-cused had had only two alternatives: “to bow their heads and submit, or to resist by force.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The threat of violence didn’t just come from law enforcement officers, marchers were told; waiting for them downtown were members of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The other man didn't match the eyewitness descriptions of the person seen leaving the cleaners, and he didn't have our caller's history of stalking, violence against women, and preoccupation with the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The twins, puzzled, looked at each Other; while Piggy, reassured by the cessation of violence, stood up carefully. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z This would give people a means of expressing their frustration without resorting to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't like it at all; the violence was pointless and, helped along by Ras, was actually being directed against the community itself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to think about all the gang violence in his part of the city and all the young people killed for no good reason. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was a horrible thing to see, to watch the light leave his eyes. Believe me when I tell you that kind of violence was the work of a beast, Ekon.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In those days, with all the violence and riots going on, you did not want to be out that late at night. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Before my students found the safety of Room 203, many saw violence as a solution. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Once a man sat down on the ice and decided not to continue, it would require force or threats of violence to get him moving again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Others would begin at B-block, get turned off by the greater chaos factor—the younger, more transient inmates or the higher incidence of gang violence—and head back to A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The very basis of his argument against our integrating was that it would cause so much violence that blood would run in the streets. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they were laughing, the species of laughter that often comes as a bridesmaid of violence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sound of fury and violence, but also a sound of agony. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “My father sent me south, to keep me out of reach if there was violence. No one was supposed to know where I was.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I was angry, because I missed my squad and needed more violence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Victor was the younger son and brother—a tête montée, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Bobby Rush, the incumbent congressman, had tragically lost a family member to gun violence in Chicago only a few months earlier, which cast Barack in an even poorer light. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I then began to tell him a bit about the history of our organization and whv we had turned to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That tension continued for the several days of the gathering, while Doug prayed that the visit would not end in violence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My own reaction—that ravenous lust for violence—is proof. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We talk about “epidemics of violence” or crime waves, but it’s not clear that we really believe that crime follows the same rules of epidemics as, say, Hush Puppies did, or Paul Revere’s ride. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Marcus, what she is offering is too good to be true—we get everything we want without all the violence! How can you possibly say no?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Then it is just another act. You are losing it, boy. You must be forgetting this is New York City. Random murder and violence.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We had all hoped that as negotiations got under way, violence would decrease. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She told us it was safe, that in all the time she’d lived there as a kid, she had not once experienced crime or violence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Fortunately, I don’t think I’m capable of violence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There was something unpleasant about this waiting, he felt everything around him to be holding back some kind of violence. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He completely ignored Dr. Grossman’s suggestion that he rest more, and every time I brought up the subject he either waved it away or talked about the violence now going on in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Now the final ingredient: the heartbeat of the chained god - chaos, violence and fear of mortality.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Victor was the younger son and brother— with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z If all eighteen indeed died violently, it means that about 4.5 per cent of deaths in the ancient Danube Valley were caused by human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the foregoing should be interpreted as an excuse for the violence, decadence, or misogyny that pervades what has come to be known as gangsta culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Anne Frank Center USA honors “those who have followed the courage of their convictions to step forward and actively confront anti-Semitism, racism, prejudice, and bias- related violence in their community.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Although none of the journalists anticipated violence, several had predicted shouted abuse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Ridgeway’s penchant for violence and odd fixations had made it hard to find men willing to ride with him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The violence associated with crack began to ebb in about 1991. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was an audacious crime, a troubling sign of the violence that felt like it was closing in on her no matter how far she moved away from the center of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Javier was immortalized, transformed into a something both spiritual and visceral, a reminder of this city’s violence, a reminder of this city’s compassion. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The student body of the college was tense with suppressed violence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She did, however, make it clear that she did not support the use of violence if it could be avoided. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Sixty Minutes devoted a whole hour to screen violence and games’ supposedly lethal impact on the young. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if violence broke out between the two species, Neanderthals were not much better off than wild horses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He hated violence and bloodshed and had an intense distaste for the terrorist policy of the Irgun, but he hated the British non-immigration policy even more. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Josiah had always shown them how ridiculous violence and anger were; beating the mare would not make the spotted cattle appear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her father was certain that taking action in the schools and the education system was the best way of changing the escalating pattern of violence in the country. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Islamophobic micro-aggressions and then real violence were first directed at women who wear hijab—especially black women who wear hijab. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The man possesses quite an imposing air, one of barely repressed violence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until we established a supportive classroom environment in Room 203 and were allowed freedom of expression that the students realized violence is never the answer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Samuel knew his son’s quality and felt the potential of violence, and it frightened him, for Samuel had no violence—even when he hit Adam Trask with his fist he had no violence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z LeAlan: Do you feel that these children were bred in a life of violence? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In his heart there was a savage violence, and once he grasped the poker from the hearth and struck down his wife. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Of all the issues that hindered the peace process, none was more devastating and frustrating than the escalation of violence in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence she witnessed frightened her, but it wasn’t wholly unexpected. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The moment he unlatched the gate it was shoved open with a violence that all but knocked him down. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I don’t think my costume was bad, and it sure wasn’t supporting violence. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How violence went on and on like a terrible wheel? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of reading about gang violence in newspapers, I’m the kid you see on the news telling a reporter what I’ve witnessed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even by the grim standards of Russian assassinations, the violence of this murder was a testimony to the visceral hatred that he had inspired in his enemies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That at that moment I could have done violence, that I could have punched them all in the face? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Just as foragers exhibited a wide array of religions and social structures, so, too, did they probably demonstrate a variety of violence rates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Malcolm X, what about those ‘Blood Brothers,’ reportedly affiliated with your organization, reportedly trained for violence, who have killed innocent white people?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “But—” I want to say how the Black Panthers weren’t about violence, but my mouth won’t cooperate. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When given a choice, most people in the ghetto, like anywhere else, would prefer to be able to work, support their families, and live without fear of harm or violence, if given the chance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At nineteen, Joe was at least four inches shorter than Ivy and only 155 pounds, but people in the neighborhood called him Crazy Joe because he seemed to enjoy violence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I was more convinced than ever that the government was behind much of the violence and the violence was impeding the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d directed Tina, my chief of staff and an attorney who herself had spent many years in the city, to throw her energy into rallying support for violence prevention there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He thought there was a good chance this meal would end in violence. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We were extremely proud of the fact that during the six months of the campaign, there was not a single act of violence on our side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The criticism of his act came with quick violence from all sections of the country. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Many also admit that a predictable consequence of breaking up one drug ring is a slew of violence as others fight for control of the previously stabilized market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The constant tempo of that violence pulsed throughout my body and made me feel small, and weak, and cowardly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was always giving me lectures about physical violence. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The first of these acts of violence took place on May 8, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina, after a fight between local blacks and sailors stationed at a nearby naval training station erupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z These are such sights as greet the view of those who suffer siege in cities: the anxiety of violence mingled with the antics of incongruity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The official death toll in the four months of violence stood at about four hundred; the unofficial figure was twice that. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of the battle was confused at first, incoherent, sometimes contradictory, but one thing was certain: here was a clash that roared with a violence and terror such as the country had never known. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z With emotions running high, the packing company owners and the governor agreed that the potential for reignited violence was too great to risk throwing the races together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But there is a world of difference between being inclined toward violence and actually committing a violent act. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He recovered without serious physical problems but was traumatized by the experience and disoriented by the violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He talked about the pressures on him everywhere he turned, and about the frustrations, among them that no one wanted to accept anything relating to him except “my old ‘hate’ and ‘violence’ image.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell and Quang-ha appear to be hunting for two things: Mostly they are looking for acts of violence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Rick Hutt: Rather than how long it’s been going on, I focus on the kind of violence I see. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fielding looked from one to the other, shocked by the violence in Kingshaw's voice. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z As the years pass, Valentine observed, racial violence only becomes more vicious in its expression. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Fear of being a target of irrational violence haunted me day and night. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The state of unrest and political violence was reaching new heights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung his big brown fists with crazed violence and sobbed aloud. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The facts of the case are hardly even remarkable when viewed in the context of the persistent violence perpetrated against American workers for much of our early history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, the hoodlums left, but the violence revived old fears; once again I longed to be invisible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In 2015, this disconnect was once again forced into the light of day as violence surged in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, and Baltimore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But shortly after that they were transferred to Tule Lake, where there were turmoil and violence and arrests, and now they were here, traveling ten hours for butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They feared that one of their own might commit an act of violence that would jeopardize their position by allowing the whites to say they were too dangerous to have their rights. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Through his delirium, Nailer could see his father’s building willingness to do violence. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z For the awful violence of this slaughter, Strauss reserves his angriest, most dissonant music yet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She considered running her hands through the soft black curls by his ears but refrained when a memory of old violence reared up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He’d be very quiet, and then out of nowhere the violence would come. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Some scholars and commentators have pointed out that the racial violence once associated with brutal slave masters or the Ku Klux Klan has been replaced, to some extent, by violence perpetrated by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What I do remember, what I will never forget, is the violence that followed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Not a single incident of violence was reported. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Their departure clears enough of a path that I can grab Katherine’s arm and wrench her away from the rest of her suitors without any further violence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the luminance, the deep red of the rubies embedded in the carved ivory glittered like blood, a beautiful violence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “And to dismantling a system of violence in my school,” said Moss playfully, and they clinked glasses and laughed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence—which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They spent that night where they were, by the bank of the river, peaceful at last after the violence of the afternoon. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But one human being flaring up into violence could open up a black hole, a maelstrom that pulled in the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote that the picketers had neither violated the law nor committed violence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Few people commit violence in schools, but way too many have fantasized about it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Farmer in Haiti, Jim had to deal with political uncertainty and violence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “It’s true! He hates violence in all its forms, but especially guns.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z People across the country were horrified by the violence and charged the government with complicity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A senator losing a daughter to the kind of violence his bill was trying to prevent was far more sympathetic than one whose daughter had lived. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He put the gangs and violence of South Central behind him and showed remarkable progress. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were no cries—no spitting of a cat, no squealing of a rabbit—only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But here are the words that kept ricocheting around me all day: Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence still remains. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The violence was so bad that on more than one occasion Antonio called the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "The right to self-defense is protected under local and federal law. The tragic loss of one so young to violence renews our resolve to quell gang activity in Underhill." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Howard Fuller’s use of the phrase Black Power—against this backdrop of contention and violence—stirred a hornet’s nest in both the white and black communities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And why, now, was he so tame under the violence or treachery done him? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There is a strange frozen violence in a forest out of season. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This violence exhausted us and we went back to the house for a short nap. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence might at last die out of him and set him free to contemplate his destiny and his next life on the Great Wheel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z All of us are waiting for Brian to speak, watching the dancing stone, mesmerized by it, as the air sizzles with coming violence. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In the seventh month of the trial, the state said it would produce evidence of planned violence that occurred during the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence and killing are out of control. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Together the stores provided the family with a comfortable life in Kacanik, until ethnic violence tore their homeland apart. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We held hands again and walked back to the hotel after we pinned the buttons that had names of people who were killed because of violence on a tree in front of the Washington Monument. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I sent out members to mingle with crowds and try to discourage any further violence and sent an open letter to all the press denouncing them for "distorting" and inflating minor incidents. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Deprivation of work, particularly among men, is strongly associated with depression and violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “My mind kept coming back to the events of Tuesday, for it was a terrible, terrible day. It was a day of killing—a day of violence.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In sleep, her features were smooth, unbitten by the smolder of violence that lurked there otherwise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z To keep blacks “in their place,” Klan tactics ranged from stealing black farmers’ horses, to threats of violence, to floggings, to outright murder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In this case, the state was far more powerful than we, and any attempts at violence by us would be devastatingly crushed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence of it, the awful finality of his command, is shocking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It is up to you,” I said, “not us, to renounce violence.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been watching the violence of this time go by on the screen long enough to have picked up a few things.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I responded that the state was responsible for the violence and that it is always the oppressor, not the oppressed, who dictates the form of the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In my neighborhood gang violence and drug trafficking play a big role and kids have no one to look up to as an example of hope. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This leads to a breakdown in moral standards, to an alarming rise in illegitimacy and to growing violence which erupts, not only politically, but everywhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the violence didn’t even have to be physical. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Flaving said this, I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It scared me the first time I really saw the danger of these ghetto teen-agers if they are ever sparked to violence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If the inclinations toward slavery and racism, misogyny and violence are connected—as individual character and human history, as well as cross-cultural studies, suggest—then there is room for some optimism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But under all our talk floated a latent sense of violence; the whites had drawn a line over which we dared not step and we accepted that line because our bread was at stake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as the violence was not dealt with, the progress to a new dispensation would remain uneven and uncertain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacy groups did not shrink from violence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that’s inflicted on people that they in turn inflict on others. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And on those days when no one offends, well, there is always random violence, isn’t there?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By the mid-2000s, he predicted, their numbers would double or even triple, unleashing a tidal wave of violence across the nation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dudes in here have a way of isolating you, a sort of passive violence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They learn how to change the South without violence, how to not be moved by the evil actions of others, how to walk slowly but with deliberate steps. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z A similar survey of 400 skeletons from the same period in Israel discovered a single crack in a single skull that could be attributed to human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He ignored the violence in the gesture and kissed her moist palm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Moreover, racial hostility and racial violence have not altogether disappeared, given that complaints of racial slurs and brutality by the police and prison guards are fairly common. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Later, it would deteriorate under the grind of poverty and gang violence, becoming one of the city’s more dangerous places to live. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was a week before the race laws went into effect and violence against the colored population was on the rise in rehearsal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Within a few hours, the earthquake had brought her face to face with violence, death, and vulgarity and had put her in touch with the basic needs to which she had been oblivious. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z About the gangs, and the drugs, and the police, and the violence. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were terrible men, immensely strong, and such lovers of war and violence that they were completely destroyed by their own hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Foot soldiers also risked arrest and, more worrisome, violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to help change the violence in our city.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A crew’s relevancy—their ability to hold their own corner and expand the business—was dependent on the amount of muscle they controlled and the level of violence their muscle was ready to get into. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had “quelled them with unspeakable violence.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It allows them to rationalize using violence against the other and destroying their culture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Interceptor planes were kept on alert, and 10,000 policemen were assigned to guard against any acts of violence or sabotage by enemy agents. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Frantic to escape the new violence caused by it, blacks, called Exodusters, streamed out of North Carolina heading for Western states. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Against threats of violence, the children marched peacefully down the streets of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Kids who talked openly about anger and alienation, or who confessed thoughts of revenge or fantasies of violence against people who’d been tormenting and excluding them, were hauled off to counselors. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The slurs and the violence from the dialogue ricocheted around the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The specter of yellow fever had incited a normally peaceful group of individuals to violence, and Staten Island officials did not want that mob to turn its fury on them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Then she announces to the class, “There will be no fighting in or outside of my classroom. I have a zero-tolerance policy for violence. Is that understood?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The atmosphere darkened, they heard reports of violence and unrest, and both Edmond and Isaac knew, in the way they knew things, that something bad was going to happen. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tremors shook my body with such violence I was unable to rise off my stomach. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I’ve never felt the pride that is supposed to come with righteous self-defense and justified violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z During moments of actual violence, they often felt separated or isolated from themselves, as if they were watching someone else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In one day of breathtaking violence, a new Japanese onslaught had begun. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And of course, outright violence against Indigenous peoples by European forces occurred frequently. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think it is within my nature to hit someone. I will not meet violence with violence. I won’t stoop to their level.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z But in no place did the level of violence fall farther or faster. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not want violence, and neither did I. They stepped aside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Please, God, I prayed, help us to protect our valley and to stop this violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Suicide, prisoner-on-prisoner violence, inadequate medical care, staff abuse, and guard violence claimed the lives of hundreds of prisoners every year. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When there’s violence involved, they tend to keep you. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z How had we come to this, where violence was used to protest violence? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And pardon her mouth, she thinks, pardon the mouths of the golf-course lady and the librarian and lots of other people who are angry about violence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And if there’s no reform, there’s going to be more and more violence. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The White City had drawn men and protected them; the Black City now welcomed them back, on the eve of winter, with filth, starvation, and violence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What would Rinehart do about this, I thought, and knowing, determined not to let her provoke me to violence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I had watched them grow, had tried to protect them, sometimes in vain, but always unhesitatingly, from the harsh elements of black life—violence, hate, poverty, hunger, ignorance, suffering, death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We can’t be the Buccaneers because pirates supported violence and discrimination against women. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The United States and some other countries, as well as the United Nations, were attempting to isolate Serbia because of its sponsorship of violence against Muslims and other minorities. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not even the snowfall could hide the violence ripped through the missing fabric across Aileen’s body. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she was plunged into the violence of the morning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Klan had neither the economic clout nor the political savvy to manipulate social institutions, and so it depended on overt violence of the most basic type: the fist, the rope, or the gun. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Their contention was that violence was nothing more than criminal behavior that could not be tolerated by the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, these Philadelphia citizens probably decided, smudge the city’s reputation even further—and possibly drive away future business—with detailed written accounts of looting and violence? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Biblical subjects tilt toward violence: Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes is now popular. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Drugs and alcohol can lead to violence,” his mother had said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We also argued that the planning of violence was necessary to prove high treason, and the prosecution needed to provide examples of its claim that we intended to act violendy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the thirty-sixth person in Chicago killed in gun violence that year, and the year was at that point just twenty-nine days old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My fantasies were a moral bulwark that enabled me to feel I was keeping my emotional integrity whole, a support that enabled my personality to limp through days lived under the threat of violence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But really, this woman should shut car doors with less violence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Terryl was doing a command performance for her debate team, arguing about the deleterious impact of violence in advertising. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hazel saw herself riding Arion, charging through the melee and shouting—trying to stop the violence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z "I maintain, violence is not the answer to these problems of race and discrimination. We must foster dialogue between the black and white extremes." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z But we believed that violence would have been a disaster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Too often the engagement with violence seemed playful. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon and his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It may have been a protective stance, but it was also a gesture of weakness and submission which was bound to provoke greater violence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We got more upset day by day and, as a result, resorted to more violence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “All that violence is bad for you—plus it gets you worked up.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could not sit idly by as the violence continued, and I sought another meeting with Chief Buthelezi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And because no domestic violence charges had ever been filed in all the times my mother had called the police to report him, Abel had no criminal record. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z McKissick and the black student leaders knew that such violence could only hurt their cause, and at 10 P.M. they persuaded the protesters to go home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Even while negotiating, they were secretly funding covert organizations that committed violence against us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not far from Kigoma is a refugee camp where people have fled from the violence in the little neighboring country of Rwanda. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I had seen both my parents sink into old age and death, and here too there was no violence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes on to mention the uprising at Midtown and actually says, “It only makes sense that a song that encourages violence encouraged them to act violently.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z These numbers were astonishing to me and my staff, but the sad fact is that urban schools around the country were contending with epidemic levels of gun violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Delawares were on the receiving end of some of the worst violence against Indigenous peoples during the separatists’ war against Britain. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some of them had separated their money, folded the bills around their fingers, clenched the fingers into fists, so the neat ends of the money stuck out in a blend of daintiness and violence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I check my little black book, but I haven’t written anything down since midday yesterday: notes about Kamal—age, ethnicity, conviction for domestic violence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Their pain over this new outbreak of violence against the Jews of Palestine outweighed their hatred of Zionism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The international press was simply saturated with stories of violence from Africa, and this one was particularly bland and pedantic, the deputy editor wrote, but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Heart shapes...symbols for love, sex, and violence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the hoarse shouting and the heedless screaming of the women there was a mounting violence, and a terror she had never known before closed over Kit’s mind like fog. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The violence in his own voice startled him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Timothy was not purposely trying to frighten me about the violence of the storm; he was just being honest He had good reason to be frightened himself. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence. Our temporary home was being swept away at an unpleasantly rapid rate.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The victims of violence were buried unwashed in the clothes they had died in, as a cry for vengeance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Did people who committed acts of violence think their victims and their victims’ relatives would just forget? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They used this event to launch a night of organized violence across the country. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Political violence and international pressure continued to intensify. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut your mouth and get on your knees,” Frankie said, in a smooth, calm voice that promised violence as efficiently as any gun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Your irresponsible and misguided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama the atmosphere that has induced continued violence and now murder.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After a month of this we’d bring out the saddle, and the horse would toss its head suddenly and with such violence that the halter would snap or the rope break. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I always forget that you have seen far more violence than we have,” Zoe says, and she scans her card at the next security barrier we reach. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It’s like a chameleon that changes colors to adapt to its environment—when these kids are surrounded by violence they become violent also. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We liked not the look of the violence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The May Day parade in Cleveland spawned even greater violence, where mounted police and soldiers in trucks and tanks clashed with Socialist marchers who were sympathetic to the Communist cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, I said, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid and we must be prepared, in the near future, to use that weapon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought and grappled in the violence of their fall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Che Guevara’s face had set a violence quivering within her like a loose wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When the tears at last subsided, he had no new answers to the questions that tormented him but they had lost their violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The storm troopers were a private Nazi army feared for their aggressive brutality and violence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At that moment I felt as if I had entered a place were violence and hate did not exist. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z If we all understood each other better, we could go a long way toward stopping violence. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z France had freed slaves but then consumed itself in violence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did he? Well, fool, have you done what you came here to do? Have you freed my people from the violence of the Nightingale?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Vicious, childish acts of violence to inconvenience him, remind him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As his leg mended and he became ambulatory, he also confronted growing political violence when he traveled to Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The encounters were usually tense, with potential violence roiling just below the surface, but sometimes these confrontations were also tinged with comedy—as in the contest for seats in the council chambers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In this book I’ve included facts and figures about some of that violence. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Balekin gives him the hard stare of someone barely holding himself back from violence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z People accustomed to violence, who sucked it down like ale. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This was the same old violence Dedd had cowered under for years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the familiar sounds of violence start, the fleshy thuds I know too well. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And maybe it was because of this first act of violence at the crossroads of hopes and dreams that death lingered around that house like a baby ghost. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She hungers for a violence of nature, terrible and permanent, to record the evil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And this violence was not magical, but was of a piece and by design. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the government that provoked violence by employing violence to meet our nonviolent demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z LeAlan: Do you feel that the young people that did this crime got used to so much violence that it was nothing for them to do? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I flew to Los Angeles and drove hundreds of miles through the heart of Central California farmland to meet Antonio at a maximum-security prison dominated by gangs and frequent violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My sustained expectation of violence had exhausted me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been community rallies and outcries against the violence, but that hadn’t changed anything. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The NEC believed that the government was behind the violence and that the violence was upsetting the climate for negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z SJ crosses her arms, and the three of them lean in to hear the “analysis” of some anti-gang violence pundit who appears on a split screen with the anchor. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The cat fell to the ground, and the little shepherdess, as if she were astonished by her own act of violence, crumbled. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I told the court that we believed we could achieve our demands without violence, through our numerical superiority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I am a woman of peaceful Chiffewar, and no expert on the attractions of violence or the nature of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In time, human violence was brought under control through the development of larger social frameworks—cities, kingdoms and states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This concern is supported by ethnographic work suggesting that employers have fears of violence by black men relative to other groups of applicants and act on those fears when making hiring decisions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was not a man of violence, but had no choice but to use force against evil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People in the townships were accusing them of aiding and abetting the violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The violence continued over the next week, despite a 7 P.M. to 6 A.M. curfew imposed by the mayor and the deployment of National Guard troops throughout the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He absorbed its violence and brawn as it slithered past, a massive steel serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They are the only protections standing between us and the violence behind the Director’s warnings. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Sure, our kind may look a lot like Wolves—large fangs, sharp claws, and the capacity for violence—but what sets us apart from the rest is that we represent the balance between the two. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There was a violence in Zora at such times that set me on edge. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mark abandoned the idea of guarding their rear and looked up to see five or six faces packed together at the door, waiting for them, wild-eyed and seemingly hungry for violence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They were prepared for anything: verbal abuse, physical violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Although the rise of this crime wave long predated crack, the trend was so exacerbated by crack that criminologists got downright apocalyptic in their predictions. of youth violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And that that terror led to the hunger, the loneliness, the violence, the helplessness, the hopelessness, the apathy and the suffering with which I was surrounded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z While the goal of violence is to defeat and vanquish the enemy, the goal of Satyagraha is to convince or convert the opponent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But I think of the Mask’s cold regard, of the violence in his eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Did workers, too, ever instigate violence in pursuit of their cause? Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Anthropologists who lived with them for years report that violence between adults was very rare. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a brutal ballet on ice, exhilarating, breathtaking, but elsewhere, in the real world, it was raw, devastating violence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself was a pitted battlefield of his own forces. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We started an investigation for which we interviewed over fifty women; we were truly shocked to see how widespread the problem of sexual violence had become. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He hates violence. BF says it never solves anything, and only spreads more violence and hatred.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He kept coming, bringing the rank sharp violence of stale sweat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When the secret leaked out, the cult turned to violence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next “fix” is coming from. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When Heritage came home, he was in his teens, and he knew nothing but violence. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her violence boiled over when I got lost picking my way through the thicket of notes I’d been traversing without mistake all week long. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to understand these two sets of people who lived side by side and never touched, it seemed, except in violence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly a dozen of their neighbors were shot and killed after being caught in the crossfire of gun violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All over the web she found news of the violence and evidence of its overstatement. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Fuller knew that a demonstration under such emotional circumstances would end in violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z People who normally can't stand the idea of violence are suddenly willing to make an exception. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I know how irrational that must seem, given what I saw happening around me; but until that evening I had thought I had a special immunity, that somehow the violence wouldn't touch me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A round-faced blond with a brisk, no-nonsense manner, she was known as a crusader for the rights of women and children—her prosecutorial priorities included sex trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Worst of all was the violence that took place simply for violence’s sake. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I will be looked at, now, with respect: paintings that can get bottles of ink thrown at them, that can inspire such outraged violence, such uproar and display, must have an odd revolutionary power. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Northern soldiers stormed into southern villages to quell the violence, but the fighting raged on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Mornings, he would stand midthigh in the surf and feel he understood its power, that he understood greatness — that he was neither fooled by its easy majesty nor afraid of its violence. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He began muttering something about “regrettable violence—must really protest,” but at a single glance from Jadis he became speechless. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z For a week and a half following the February violence, Mayor Grabarek refused to comment on the troubles. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead they all influenced each other, sometimes by trade, sometimes by violence, each one developing new techniques, exporting unique goods, and swiping ideas from the others. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe more violence solves the problem of violence. Anyway, my opinions don’t constitute the exam.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Those opposed to negotiations benefited from the violence, which always seemed to flare up when the government and the ANC were moving toward an agreement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To get away from the violence, Poppy moved his family first to Harlan County, Kentucky, and then, when battles erupted there, to McDowell County, where he went to work in the Gary mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Doris is a tough woman, but she did not do well with violence and fighting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The man police blame for his murder was killed four days later in an outbreak of violence that left four people dead in one six-hour period. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The height of violence for us was on the weekly television Western imported from Hollywood and dubbed clumsily in Spanish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z For months he had been talking to Chinese and Korean gang leaders, in an effort to halt their street extortion and violence, negotiate some kind of settlement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z People with genetic predispositions to violence fly off the handle when normal people keep their cool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through Joe, I enlisted the efforts of white Communist Party members who had resolved on a course of violence and had already executed acts of sabotage like cutting government telephone and communication lines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We discussed the armed struggle and I explained to him it was not up to us to renounce violence, but the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he stopped, and with a strange violence his hand descended on the table. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She didn’t follow the reports too much—her dad didn’t like her looking at violence, even if it was on the news. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I wasn’t naive enough to think Klan violence was merely a thing of the past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After the riot, the city braced itself for the possibility of more violence. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Besides, I felt, as did many other students, that with Bantu Education, the source of all the violence, still in place, there was no point in learning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was bribery and general shadiness that went on, a great deal of violence, and a lot of protection money paid to avoid violence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That was Sea Island cotton the slaver had ordered for his rows, but scattered among the seeds were those of violence and death, and that crop grew fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My mom didn’t want my mind polluted by movies with sex and violence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But as Oliver said at the time of the bombing, the armed struggle was imposed upon us by the violence of the apartheid regime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was hearing reports of unchecked violence, widespread chaos, thousands presumed dead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He had no history of crime or violence, and for most folks who knew him, robbery just didn't make sense for a man who worked as hard as Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z From violence she went into a gloomy stupor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The reality of slave violence versus stability in the long term. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Only his eyes did not share the violence of the rest of him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The cause of Lazlo’s shock wasn’t the violence of it—the spurting blood or the liberal quantities of red paint used to illustrate it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I love their energy, their violence, their incredible grinding guitars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wake of February’s chaos, whites were less interested in the causes of the violence than in whether or not it could happen again. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “In the fight for civil rights, for instance, there was sometimes violence. Terrible violence. But it eventually led to good as the minds and hearts of people were changed.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Making that decision frightened me as much as his violence ever did. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Many of the people in the ANC were restive, and in September, at a press conference, I said that the continuing violence might necessitate taking up arms once more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I jerked the jug to my mouth and took a huge gulp of cider in relief, and the violence latent in the day drifted away; perhaps the Naguamsett carried it out on the receding tide. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z These painful testimonials explained more—a lot more— about Littleton than all the vapid media stories about video violence, Goths, game-crazed geeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her nausea returned with redoubled violence when she remembered the scene in the courthouse, but she had nothing left to part with. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A world that seemed to hold out nothing to me but hunger, pain, violence and death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Harrison Salisbury came to my city to investigate the stories of racial violence; he wanted to find out if the rumors were really true. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The front of Lincoln’s body shows no sign of physical violence, and the forward slumping indicates that the attack must have come from behind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “He was the emperor,” Pinmei said, closing her eyes as the violence of the evening washed over her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z When the boy carried the lantern down to the quarter, his masters following, violence was assured. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The government radio report made it sound as if the violence was caused by us, the people voting. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Military historian John Grenier observes that any time it appeared that the Indigenous population might outnumber settlers in a region, the settlers were quick to resort to “extravagant violence.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, and with a violence that frightened me, he leaned down and banged his forehead on the steering wheel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Often these categories overlap, since nearly everyone who engages in violence first survives it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In March, after one particularly horrifying spasm of violence, I announced on my own that I would meet Chief Buthelezi at a mountain hamlet outside of Pietermaritzburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The previous night had been calm compared to the day, but this night brought more fury, more violence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They would say that guns are used for self-defense, if not violence, and therefore they are self-serving. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I say, remembering Matthew Lyle’s Noise back in Farbranch, remembering the violence in it, the Noise that now makes sense even tho it don’t make no sense at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But as it happened, a central tenet of life in the Klan—and of terrorism in general—is that most of the threatened violence never goes beyond the threat stage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It took threats of violence by Booth to persuade Lucas to allow the fugitives to stay the night at his cabin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If Tariq had fired first, Jack would be just another victim of gang violence. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The advertisement began with frightening music accompanied by flashing images of protestors, bloodied victims, and violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to go away. Where would 1 go? There’s probably some violence freak outside waiting to plug me. Arid anyway, suddenly I really feel like hurting you.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s improvement, there’s constant improvement. Gandhi proved it’s the only weapon that can win against violence.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As Pirow put it, the accused knew that the achievement of the goals of the Freedom Charter would “necessarily involve the overthrow of the State by violence.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That most of the people around Rufus know more about real violence than the screenwriters of today will ever know.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "Very well, but no violence," Brother Jack said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Strange hot land of courtly manners and sudden violence, elegance and anger. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a remarkable turning point: Gandhi escaped the cycle of violence breeding violence; he challenged poor workers to show wealthy masters that there is a better way. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We should care deeply about all people impacted, including people who live in fear of violence, people who are survivors, and those who commit violent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That this rugged countenance with its air of violence should give her entrance into such a realm of wonder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to return to grammar school violence, the cherished honor of the schoolyard that wasn’t honor at all, the necessity of proving yourself by bloody noses and black eyes and broken teeth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake looked at him once before, sobbing with violence, he rushed headlong from the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We needed the violence to cheer us after a whole day of boring traveling and contemplation about why our superiors had let us go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We speak of our own dead in low voices; struck down, we say, as though visible death can only occur for cause, by disease or violence, avoidably. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Addressing the mass meeting Malcolm X reportedly shouted: “I don’t advocate violence, but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He apologized abjectly for the violence, but immediately began to badger her about helping with his transfer. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not like fighting to start with, and far from learning to love it, as some men do, he felt an increasing revulsion for violence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The debate on the use of violence had been going on among us since early i960. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bribery or violence was my choice if I dealt with that fisherman still at work in his boat in the inner dock: a faulty engine seemed not worth either. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please. I have watched how your son behaves, how your wife behaves. I know what people who are stained with violence look like.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z "We will not countenance any aggressive violence. Understand? Nor attacks upon officials or others who do not attack us. We are against all forms of violence, do you understand?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When young people around here are touched by violence, it changes their whole persona. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Violence for violence’s sake, cruelty for cruelty’s sake. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was this lottery of violence that haunted me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The violence was bad enough, and being made to watch it was even worse, but with Mrs Pratchett in the audience the whole thing became a nightmare. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Garcia was very busy, but he never let a day go by without seeing Alba, alternating unbridled violence with the pretense that he was her good friend. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents get together to compare their kids’ report cards, and gang violence is something they read about in a newspaper. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I had to keep reminding myself of what Ishtar really was: a goddess of violence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Use the monopoly of force to promote happiness, by maintaining public order and curbing violence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the hand of heaven stays your hand. Or perhaps reason is your master. It is only those who are ruled by passion who allow their thoughts of violence to become violent acts.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As black fought against black, Alexandra was sealed off by armoured vehicles and soldiers, to prevent the violence and carnage from spilling into the suburbs, where whites were buying shotguns and rifles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother’s greatest fear was that I would end up paying the black tax, that I would get trapped by the cycle of poverty and violence that came before me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Each time we let the inmates back out, someone else is attacked, violence flaring up like one of those trick birthday candles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Werfel gathered his courage and piped up: “Regibald du Burgh, this elf is my guest and my responsibility, and any violence you wish to do to him must first be done to me.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Pima tugged him closer and they huddled together, sharing heat, waiting for nature’s violence to pass. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z During the discussion period, one white man went to the microphone and made the dubious claim that cities with such commissions “suffered more violence than Durham.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He recognized the violence dancing in her eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “I can’t allow it! I am the author of this story, and I didn’t write it to be misused for the purposes of violence and murder!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t, for the love of God, put violence on me. I’m a man hopes there’ll be a picture of peace on my hatchments.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z C.P. put away his concerns from the night before and concentrated on leading a group discussion of interracial violence, the subject he had broached on Monday night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The violence associated with the crack boom was various and relentless. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The reason why my neighborhood is filled with violence is because I live in the projects. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Though men’s magazines often suffer from worse sorts of idiocies having to do with violence and assassins for hire, they rarely have these fatuous quizzes in them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a shadow of the mama Ophie had grown up with, the best parts of her destroyed with a single act of violence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I imagined myself fighting them, inflicting far more violence on them than they ever could on me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He did desperate violence to his naked body among the rasping creepers so that blood was sliding over him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Without that protection, Blacks all over the South were prevented from voting by intimidation and violence at the hands of White southerners. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z If we did not start a dialogue soon, both sides would be plunged into a dark night of oppression, violence, and war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, allowed one white student, interracial violence did sometimes occur. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I raised my head enough to make sure that she did, contemplating violence if she resisted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z According to the latest annual report on violence, Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time is not the world’s most violent region. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Although violence was still pervasive, the National Party had never been stronger. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Klan violence and intimidation quickly became routine in North Carolina as elsewhere. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And in the two weeks between that interview and Ellsberg’s start date at the Pentagon, violence in Vietnam pushed the country closer to open war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As the bloodied marchers of Selma were being carried off to the hospital, the nation’s three major television networks interrupted their scheduled programs and stunned viewers with graphic footage of the day’s violence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From what she saw, Tennessee was fire, disease, and violence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The violence of the day before was not forgotten but it appeared to have subsided. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s somebody who doesn’t believe in violence,” he said. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z My father and most of his brothers died by violence— my father because of what he believed in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t hold violence in my hands,” he’d answered, holding them up in front of his face. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There were moments when, due to the constant tension of prison life and the general lack of catharsis, violence and the potential for violence became a thrill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors told Mother that Shawn’s injury might have altered his personality—that in the hospital, he had shown tendencies toward volatility, even violence, and that such changes might be permanent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If there’s fire in his eyes, it’s a lust for violence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z All the mice took a solemn vow never to harm another living creature, unless it was an enemy that sought to harm our Order by violence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was still too much a child, still insufficiently acquainted with violence, to believe that bodily harm could possibly come to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Incidents like the Emmett Till murder were not limited to Mississippi; acts of racial injustice and violence were happening all over the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No official body count, no reliable numbers of physical assaults, and no definitive records of worker jailings without due process truly document the violence of the struggle for workers’ rights. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When we began to hear about the unrest and violence in Germany, it was disturbing; but we had our hands full with daily life, and that was all we could manage. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The black gun was beautiful, all gold inlay and ebony carved like dragon scales, but up close she could see how damaged it was: pitted and scratched, flecked with age and long-forgotten acts of violence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The sick pounding kind of violence that I have to mute the TV to get through, unless Dad’s around and then I have to endure it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z If I didn’t want the violence to remain, I had to do a hell of a lot more than just say the right things and not say the wrong things. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And where there was violence wasn’t there also vice? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They described a daily, even hourly, fear of gangs and violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ruby was heat and volatility, she was passion, but not violence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He knew now that his father was mapping out the violence, planning to catch Nailer, to teach him some respect. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There were comic strips to show us some examples of how people are misjudged and how our negative thoughts can lead to violence. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For an infiltrator, this posed a particularly sticky problem: What would happen if he were called upon to inflict violence? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing demonic or unclean about them, no reason for them to be subjected to such violence, but the message on Nazi propaganda posters plastered all over the city told a different story. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A committee was formed to lead efforts to protect black people from any further violence. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “This is outrageous! Your indecent exhibition of that girl’s dead body serves no purpose but that of an incitement to mob violence. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I have seen plenty since and have felt the shattering waves of violence and despair and confusion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, each weekend, the newspapers were filled with fresh reports of new and bloody violence in our communities and townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy’s jacket and shirt and undershirt had been hauled up around his shoulders by the violence, so his back was naked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The time has arrived, and I know I need to be standing outside that house at the end of Edgar Street—a house held up by the violence that occurs inside it almost every night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Where blacks merely maintained they were issuing warnings, whites heard implicit promises of violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But more than any shame I feel about my own actual violence, my greatest regret was that in seeking to defend you I was, in fact, endangering you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Others might be fooled, but Helms assured listeners in January 1968 that his own finely pitched ear discerned in King’s voice “the crackle of anarchy and the threat of violence.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No stranger to violence, he lost his father and two older brothers at Srebrenica. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” he concluded, with a sigh, “it w'on’t do. We need some other kind of madness and violence. But what? What? Where can one find it?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I w as thinking of the violence of my last meeting with Scott, of the way he was at the end -wild and paranoiac, on the edge of madness. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Packing their bags, climbing aboard a bus, leaving behind all this violence, going to find blessings, or trouble, and whichever came they would face it together. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The worst violence took place at dusk, when the city’s thousands of black factory workers were attacked as they walked home from work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The couple has now resided there for a dozen years and gradually persuaded the Fayu to renounce violence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But let us come to the second instance, when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city not through wickedness or any other intolerable violence, but with the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Dissent is a necessary ingredient of change, but in a system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he returned to Haiti, however, the political tensions and violence had worsened, and his mood turned somber again. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I felt powerless to do anything about the hatred and violence in this city-—my city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We might even have edged into a quarrel with passion and violence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In all four cases, there was historical evidence of altered states of consciousness, frequently in connection with the outbursts of violence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius imagined it was something in his mother’s family, a group of people who tended to suffer violence and pain. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of the region were steeped in violence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But on May 1, 1919, with a number of the marchers carrying red flags, violence marked the parades in New York, in Cleveland, and in Boston, where a policeman was stabbed and killed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We are cultural animals and it is the richness of our culture which allows us to accept our undoubted potentiality for violence but to believe nevertheless that its expression is a cultural aberration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Why do that if he wishes violence upon me? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I stared down at the words and began to think back on the terrible act of violence I suffered at the hands of a family member. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s nowhere for all that energy to go, no mechanism for it to dissipate, so it erupts periodically in epic acts of violence and crazy parties. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Had you just done what I asked, some of this unnecessary violence might have been prevented.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “The only effective thing,” he would say, “is violence.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, he fought clandestinely, faithful to his theory that the violence of the rich must be met by the violence of the people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour and fifteen minutes until the lullaby of soft violence stops and she blinks awake. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As was domestic violence—I had always heard men beat their wives, since we lived in such close quarters, but now I would see it out in the streets as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Terrance Randall provided a model for a mind that could conceive of North Carolina’s new system, but the scale of the violence was hard to settle in her head. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I countered by saying that in fact nonviolence had failed us, for it had done nothing to stem the violence of the state nor change the heart of our oppressors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Aware of the racial violence taking place throughout the nation, the union had posted armed guards around the church to prevent the meeting from being disrupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “But repeated acts of violence against the Armed Forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with positive reply,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Here is the only occasion within the revolutionary generation when political differences ended in violence and death rather than in ongoing argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The violence trailed off in the wee hours of Monday morning. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "If you think the answer to everything is violence, then you truly are your mother's daughter." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I wonder how much more violence will spring up if there is no new monarch to caution them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t believe in war, or that violence was the way to solve problems. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Blood ran over his left eye and down his jaw, but in that moment his predisposition toward violence was only a part of what made him so formidable. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As he revolted more and more from violence, his impulse took the opposite direction. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I am not drawn to pain and violence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Clothed all in black, the woman was like a shadow come striding out of the forest, all violence and darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In fact, nationwide, most women on death row are awaiting execution for a family crime involving an allegation of child abuse or domestic violence involving a male partner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Passersby on the other side of the street had stopped to gawk at the snakehandler-on-snakehandler violence that was unfolding. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The few skeletons belonging to mature males bore the worst marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He maintained a serene comportment at all times but generated a threatening atmosphere, like a thunderhead that seems far away but then is suddenly overhead with loud violence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was better, as happened with Khaled's own grandparents and himself, if you were able to let the violence stop when it got to you. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Lynch mobs may be long gone, but the threat of police violence is ever present. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They are known, after all, for their sudden anger, their enthusiastic violence, and their exquisite taste in torture. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z That will sure help deal with violence in America. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A bubble of violence burst in his throat. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragons, if you must know, are wicked creatures—full of violence and duplicity and deceit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They’re not going to talk about the violence or the bravery. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I was candid and explained why I believed we had no choice but to turn to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Also seen in the historical background of all the cases was the occurrence of extreme parental violence during childhood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Revolution is not a dinner party. Revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence in which one class overthrows another.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If the marchers crossed the Pettus Bridge to where the troopers were waiting, then turned around and walked back into Selma, there would be no violence and the demonstrators would have made their point. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing her niece did or tried could equal the violence done to her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z On January 31, 1985, in a debate in Parliament, the state president publicly offered me my freedom if I “unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a violence that can never be forgiven,” she said, her voice husky with emotion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The threat of violence was as palpable as the deepening cold of autumn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was, in Sergeant Maples’s experience, a man both technically proficient at stick fighting and willing to inflict violence on another man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of the deadliest period of racial violence in Chicago history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Some became trustees, mentors, and advocates against violence among inmates. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You’re good at this. Nice marksmanship and a stomach for violence.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dr. King described in detail what might happen to those of us who joined the march—possible police violence against us, maybe physical injuries, and even the chance of imprisonment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The drugs and gang violence in the inner cities, the kidnapping and terrorism that is everywhere. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tell what?” she asked, wondering at his violence. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Such foolish hope, to have thought that despite being raised to violence I might one day be free of it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a lot more violence now than there was in '93. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the threats of violence continued, Mom’s parents started to fear for her safety. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Quickly, the SCLC’s Executive Director Reverend Andrew Young and Reverend James Bevel met with Malcolm X, urging him not to incite any incidents and cautioning him that his presence could cause violence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After the army’s attack, which lasted for days and ended in many deaths, Fazlullah made one of his strangest announcements: He declared war on the government and called for people to rise up in violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Robert Resha forcefully disputed the government’s absurd contention that the ANC wanted to induce the government to use violence so we could use violence in return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Peking, China paper, Jenmin Jihpao, said that the death showed that “in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The weight of years, decades, centuries of hate and violence—it all gathered in the air and pressed down on my shoulders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I’ve been sheltered from violence my whole life, any real violence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes he comes home and there’s no violence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The scene was pitiable—the violence earnest, but with all the lassitude of the starving, peered down upon by triumphant rebels, Olympian in the dusk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He steps aside to inspect the damage he just inflicted, and as he does, he catches a glimpse of me and the violence in his fists is now in his eyes and directed at me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Similarly, “anyone who seeks out the company of such vicious creatures as werewolves and giants would appear to have a fondness for violence.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z This boy has been hit so many times in his life that violence is practically a normal state of affairs for him. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To let every second of pain and anger come out of him in one moment of glorious, almost beautiful, violence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He had an elongated dimple on his chin, which only served to underline the threat of a lurking manic violence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the violence continued to spiral, I began to have second thoughts about the suspension of the armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just making sure no peckerwoods round here start any illegal violence.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mine found out there’s violence and said I couldn’t watch them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Notorious for overcrowding and violence, the prison was known by its initials, LBJ, in a sarcastic tip of the hat to the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When two individuals fight, he will intervene and stop the violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the night’s future the tensions would explode into violence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange how this did not seem a real death, so unlike the others, quiet, without rage or violence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He once told me that football is built on violence and racism, and it is corrupting and exploiting kids in low-income neighborhoods. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I could not wrap my head around why anyone would want to harm innocent people, or understand how hatred could fuel such violence. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They said the threat of violence due to integration was not sufficient for the governor to have called out troops. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn't raised around this level of violence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z At any rate, a study of more than a thousand Wari and Tiwanaku graves found no evidence of the trauma associated with violence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He acknowledged that the random violence and careening course of the French Revolution were lamentable developments, but he insisted they were merely a passing chapter in the larger story of triumphant global revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z However, this violence was rarely, if ever, officially condoned or orchestrated by the unions, as it was on the part of company owners and managers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Instead, Hadiya Pendleton became one of three people who died in separate incidents of gun violence in Chicago on that one January day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He responded to his father’s controlled violence by developing hard habits and a soft imagination. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1969 film Easy Rider, with its stereotyped portrayal of cracker violence, typified the fear and loathing most liberals, particularly Yankees, felt for poor white Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the elections were canceled, “because of violence,” the radio said. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And she bore his violence and she looked at him and she said simply, “And to that one you gave my two pearls!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was during the Red Summer that African Americans began to organize and fight back against white violence and oppression. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Or was it, perhaps, only the echo of a thousand headlines that had already screamed their violence into the deepest corners of her soul? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They and their families had fled violence and chaos and found themselves in a place with a completely different set of values and customs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I should offer her some soothing words, but I am a knot of rage and violence, and I ain't got anything like her platitudes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We were embarking on a new and more dangerous path, a path of organized violence, the results of which we did not and could not know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad has always said that violence is something to avoid at all costs,” Albert tells us. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Far from protecting demonstrators, the Durham police often initiated the violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Speakers stressed the need to refrain from violence during the march, both out of respect to the memory of King and to avoid providing police with an excuse to massacre demonstrators. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The same people who had risen to power employing extralegal violence now viewed the poor whites who continued using this strategy with distaste and contempt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “If it’s loaded,” he explained sorrowfully, shoving the gun carefully back into its holster, “it can go off. Hang it back on the wall where it belongs, Mr. Cordova. Please, huh? Nobody wants violence.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And if I failed to hide the wound we were certain to experience another scene of violence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In a radio broadcast last night Mayor Ditz warned of possible mob violence and exhorted the public to maintain order. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Ma shakes her head because she’s not about any talk of violence. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Dr. King accepted Shuttlesworth’s invitation to come to Birmingham, a hotbed of racial violence—the city Dr. King called “the most segregated city in America.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The next morning the judge heard the usual chronicle of small violence and nocturnal greed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We are, all of us, trapped in a pocket of unending violence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was clear the thug life was wearing him down—the violence, the danger, the vigilance. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Just two months later in Arkansas, 1919’s most murderous acts of violence took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The next year, the professor suggested Terryl do her persuasive address on violence in advertising. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my shame floundered about for refuge. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point there had been sixteen others, but some of them chose not to participate because of the threats of violence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he talked about his own act of violence, he seemed deeply confused about how it was possible he could have done something so destructive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He stopped, frightened at what he had said, afraid of the rage or the contempt or the violence his words might let loose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t like it, the threat of violence always disturbed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Under President Botha, the march would have been banned, marchers would have defied that ban, and violence would have resulted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not the language of Sassoon but the violence of war that attracted me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My father’s death had been meaningless, and the violence in this world was meaningless, too. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The job is unpleasant and forbidding in at least two significant ways: the likelihood of violence and the lost opportunity of having a stable family life. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "The right to self-defense is protected under local and federal law. The tragic loss of one so young to violence renews our resolve to quell gang activity in Underhill." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What can I do but throw my rosary against the wall of my cell and swear violence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning the movie idea, they joined the mob in a night of roving violence. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Neither do I. He loves violence—so long as there’s no danger in it for himself—the way he loves whiskey. He’d join a mob to murder his own grandmother.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene isn’t quite like it was back at the beach, where the evidence of panic and violence painted a chilling story—and yet the abject nature of this abandonment is just as disturbing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When our government sent people to Vietnam, the violence they were exposed to affected them psychologically—and those were people that were sent there to kill and fight. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells herself that violence is something that happens to other people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A “third party” was suspected of killing Malcolm X by CORE’S National Director James Farmer, who said, “Malcolm’s murder was calculated to produce more violence and murder and vengeance killings.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned the realities of gang violence not from after-school specials but when my boy Mark got jumped and beaten down for wearing the wrong color jacket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He's about a thousand years old, and he says, "I guess you heard the ruckus? Your gramma gets so upset, bless her heart. Can't abide the idea of violence. Can't say I blame her." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I advanced toward him, with what must have been a disturbing gleam of violence in my eye. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at a distance of a few feet, everything about him screams violence, from the short black hair to the big hands to the fact that each muscle is honed to deadly perfection. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There are innocent victims, destruction, senseless violence, displacement, and a winner and a loser. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This is in large part why the story has gained currency that Chief Luthuli was not informed about the creation of MK and was deeply opposed to the ANC taking up violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stores, nightclubs, cafes, and schools had closed, and drug dealers, gangs, and violence were on the rise. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Even though they’re not held captive in an attic or dodging bombs in a basement, the violence permeating the streets is just as frightening—and just as real. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Spates of violence broke out between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the ANC, the African National Congress, as they jockeyed for power. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the past, Mrs. Bradley had notes dropped in her bag suggesting group discussions on abortion, family violence, cheating—on boyfriends, girlfriends, on tests. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z "There's no need for violence! All you need is love!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z |
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