Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outdoors with the camera usually held at a low angle enough so that faces are set off against unbroken blue skies framing them, forcing you to study the weariness and determination of the workers. Here again, one is struck deeply by a very simple fact: the victims of this violent oppression are not crazies but workers. These are people who get up every day at what is the middle of the night for most students and work hard all day, stooping and stretching in the hot sun. They are reluctant revolutionaries, but the growers have forced their hand...
...feed people, to bring forth justice to the nations, to raise the oppressed, requires political change above all. This is the metanoia that must be undergone. The social and political structures that enslave and starve people must be repudiated. I believe this repudiation must be non-violent; but America's inaction, her greed and unwillingness to do justice to the starving will, I fear, made violent and world-wide revolution inevitable. Whether the world that results will be inhabitable, or whether the systems that will be created will be just and free ones, I do not know...
...early last week 200,000 refugees, many of them defeated soldiers from farther north, had arrived in Nha Trang, doubling the city's usual population. Everyone had heard of the agony of Danang, not only of its loss to the Communists but of its civilian panic and, worse, the violent behavior of its soldiers. The city made an effort to seal itself off from the war. Newly arriving refugees were barred from entering the town...
...statistics tell only part of the story. The Justice Department calculates that about one-third of all violent crimes go unreported, an estimate that some legal experts think is far too low. Attorney General Edward H. Levi pessimistically terms the increase "predictable" and calls for greater attention to the deterrence of criminal acts. As a first step, Levi called for a new federal gun-control law that would ban possession of hand guns on the streets of high crime cities...
...beyond these political and economic considerations, the military coup in Chile represents a violent attack upon our entire concept of human rights. The whole world is horrified by the brutality with which the junta has operated, its widespread use of imprisonment without charges or trials, its beatings, rape, torture and murder of prisoners...