violence
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Is “Hope” meant to make us examine our own violence?
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
The violence helped galvanize public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
In his sentencing remarks, Judge James Sampson accepted there was "no evidence of threats, violence or coercion", adding the parents - who had no previous convictions - acted on "misguided cultural beliefs, rather than malice".
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Is it this twinned violence and fecundity that feeds our dread?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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