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When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

Wendell Berry
Kentucky, Violence, Causes
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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Wendell Berry
Violence, States, Active
Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.32, Counterpoint Press

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

Wendell Berry
Alternatives, Violence, Blind
Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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