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We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)