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We must fight those who are committed to destruction, without replicating their destructiveness. Understanding how to fight in this way is the task and the bind of a nonviolent ethics and politics.

— Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020)

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Nonviolence is not an absolute principle, but an open-ended struggle with violence and its countervailing forces.

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Lives matter in the sense that they assume physical form within the sphere of appearance; lives matter because they are to be valued equally.

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Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from a pacific or calm part of the soul. Very often it is an expression of rage, indignation, and aggression.

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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

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