Dealing with our anger: the first major step in praticing nonviolence

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The more I think about everything

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and the more I see
what's going on in the world,

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I think learning how to deal
with our anger is very important

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and that's the first major step
in practicing nonviolence.

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Because today experts say

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that more than 80 percent
of the violence

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that we experience in our lives
is generated by anger.

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And so I would urge everybody
to do whatever they can

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personally as well as I think
in schools

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from kindergarten
and all the way up to high school.

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And we need to teach children

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what anger is
and how it can be used

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intelligently and for
the good of humanity

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and give them the means to,
instead of abusing anger,

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learning how to
channel it intelligently.

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That would be a major
step in reducing violence.