{"quotes":[{"text":"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","assault-weapons","believing-in-love","coexistence","compassion","creative-minds","creative-thinking","diversity","drones","empowerment-and-attitude","ending-gun-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","grace","great-power","gun-laws","gun-safety","indviduality","jihad","jihadism-and-love","love-for-humanity","nations","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","people","philosophy-of-compassion","philosophy-of-grace","power","salvation","spirituality","suicide","suicide-bombers","sustainable-living","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","waging-peace","war","wisdom"],"id":8382,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan-war","agape-love","anguish","casualties-of-war","child-victims-of-war","children-killed-in-war","conflict-resolution","faith","fear","grief","gun-laws","gun-violence","hope","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","pain","peace","peace-movement","peacemaking","police-reform","police-shootings","russia-and-ukraine-conflict","spiritual-love","syrian-civil-war","tragedy","unconditional-love","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":88606,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["founding-fathers","freedom","government-corruption","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-rights","guns","liberty","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","second-amendment","self-defense","tyranny"],"id":119232,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["believing-in-love","bigotry","coexistence","coexisting-together","coexistência","election-year-politics","extremism","gun-laws","gun-violence","hate-crimes","hatred","human-rights-day","humanity","hypocrisy","ignorance","intelligence","leadership","megalomania","national-history-day","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","political-commentary","political-corruption","politics","prejudice","presidential-election","terrorism","world-suicide-prevention-day","xenophobia"],"id":191808,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["firearm","gun","gun-laws","guns","quite-woman","quiteness","silence","silence-speaks","woman","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-charm","woman-s-strength","woman-to-woman","womanhood"],"id":193665,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["american-rainbow-eagle","bigotry","charleston-masacre","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","common-ground","compassion","cultural-literacy","diversity","end-jihad-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","give-peace-a-chance","gun-laws","gun-violence","hate-crimes","homegrown-terrorism","homophobia","humanity","intolerance","jihadism-and-love","learning-to-love","lessons-of-the-year-2016","mass-shootings","mental-health","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","orlando-florida-shooting","orlando-massacre","poster-art","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","remembering-sandy-hook","sanity-insanity","self-hatred","spirituality","teaching-diversity","teaching-muliticulturalism","terrorism","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","what-matters-is-love","xenophobia"],"id":264953,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["2016-presidential-race","accountability","beloved-community","civic-duty","civic-responsibility","civic-virtue","civil-disobedience","communities","democracy","democratic-process","discourse-on-a-better-world","discourse-on-democracy","discourse-on-freedom","editorials-on-democracy","emigrants","gun-laws","gun-violence","human-rights","immigration","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-theory","national-history-day","peace","peace-on-earth","police-culture","police-reform","political-art","political-chaos","political-commentary","political-ethics","political-philosophy","political-poets","political-posters","political-rights","political-theory","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-democracy","presidential-election","right-to-vote","sustainable-living","teaching-democracy","voting"],"id":278928,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.","author":"Jeff Cooper","tags":["arms","bill-of-rights","constitution","evil","freedom","good-and-evil","gun","gun-ammo","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-rights","guns","gunslinger","law","moral","morality","protection","rifle","rifles","right-to-bear-arms","right-to-keep-and-bear-arms","righteous","safety","second-amendment","tyranny"],"id":301976,"author_id":"Jeff+Cooper"},{"text":"Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["founding-fathers","freedom","government-corruption","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-rights","guns","liberty","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","resistance","second-amendment","self-defense","tyranny"],"id":348307,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense -- or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?","author":"Quentin R. Bufogle","tags":["2nd-amendment","ban-semi-automatic-weapons","black-lives-matter","dallas-shooting","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-show-loophole","gun-violence","guns","lgbt","mass-shootings","nra","universal-background-checks"],"id":364982,"author_id":"Quentin+R.+Bufogle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}