When the world presents as a force field of violence, the task of nonviolence is to find ways of living and… — Judith Butler
When the world presents as a force field of violence, the task of nonviolence is to find ways of living and acting in that world such that violence is checked or ameliorated, or its direction turned, precisely at moments when it seems to saturate that world and offer no way out.
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