“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.”

We hold this truth to be self evident ! ! !

We've never been a conversive populous.  That is a mistaken assumption of this quote. The populous has relied so heavily on violence, to a point of even corrupting the language to a point of almost total positive uselessness for the conventional individual. The conclusion is, sadly, that Mr Kirk's  life was taken by another close associate in the violence business. The point is not just to appear righteous, but to indeed be righteous. 

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."

If only this phrase had been remembered over the last 50 years in grade school...

The libs started calling words they didn't like "violence" and ever since have justified real violence as a response.  Spiritual discipline helps keeps man's bloodlust in check — without it, we are but wild beasts.

Folks have not stop talking, they just have never expressed much substance in their conveyances.  The violence is well underway because the conventional atmosphere is one assembled on the foundation of cursory, insubstantiality, plain fraud, and superficiality.  Humanity, nevertheless, is good, we've simply not actually identified the conceptual process, and therefore not followed through with the authentic procedure of truly being a human being.