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• Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

  Angela Davis

  Economic Globalization, Movement, Results

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Years, Environmental

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.151, eKitap Projesi

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• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Equality, Facts, Nonsense

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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• As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Long, Rifles, Makers

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• Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Suffering, Poverty

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Confusion

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• I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Intelligent, Grudge

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 11, 2012

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• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Escaping, Order, Silence

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

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• A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

  William J. Clinton

  Assault Weapons, Democracy, Vote

  "Bill Clinton: 'A Great Democracy Doesn’t Make It Harder To Vote Than To Buy An Assault Weapon'", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rain, Evil, Enemy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.191, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.

  Louise Rennison

  Hair

  Louise Rennison (2009). “Are these my basoomas I see before me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 10)”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Differences, Different

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• You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Fall, Weather

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.214, Macmillan

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• My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

  Kesha

  Long, Minutes, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

  Leon Panetta

  Military, Violation, Sexual Assault

  "'Invisible War' Shines Light on Rape in the Military". abcnews.go.com.

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• If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

  Christine Pelosi

  Morning, Thug, Safety

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Holocaust

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

  Will Self

  Past, Individuality, Statistics

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• That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

  Will Self

  Political, Training, Environment

  "Why I said yes to Professor Self" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Assault Weapons, People, Upset

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

  Keanu Reeves

  Funny, Mind, Body

  "Keanu Reeves suffered a meltdown when he turned 40". www.ctvnews.ca. March 2, 2012.

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• There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

  Joe Lhota

  Assault Weapons, Reason, Weapons

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Lips, Too Late

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.107, Macmillan

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