Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
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My first responsibility is to keep America safe.
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.