Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.
I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.
It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.
Speak your truth but soothe your words with peace
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
