The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black Hispanic Asian Jewish Muslim or gay we still must overcome.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

In the case of Iraq notwithstanding the violence there at the moment the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide for the use of chemical and biological weapons aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Freedom is poetry taking liberties with words breaking the rules of normal speech violating common sense. Freedom is violence.