Brave man stops a street brawl and teaches a powerful lesson about respect

Words are more powerful than fists.
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Samantha Scelzo
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Brave man stops a street brawl and teaches a powerful lesson about respect
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The power of nonviolence and personal respect is on display in this video.

A man used his words, not his hands, to stop two boys from fighting in the middle of a street. When he saw the boys throwing punches, the man interrupted the fight, reprimanded the onlookers filming the fight on their phones by calling them "the real cowards" and talked the boys down by bestowing his wisdom upon them.

In the video, posted on Youtube by user Poodieville and presumably filmed by one of the bystanders the man criticized, the man doesn't leave the scene until the boys shake hands and call off the fight completely.

We could use more peaceful mediators like this man in the world.

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Samantha Scelzo

Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.


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