Quotes

"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." - Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate-it's apathy. It's not giving a damn." - Leo Buscaglia

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams"
"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded" - Leo Tolstoy

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die." - Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980 French philosopher
 Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire" -  Patrick J. Buchanan - Where the Right Went Wrong

"It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?" -  Howard Zinn - Terrorism and War

"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism" -  Noam Chomsky

"Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria" - Howard Zinn - Terrorism and War


"We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage" - James Russell Lowell:

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy

It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, whilst the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason."  - Charles Darwin


"Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true." -  Teresa Stover


"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."  - Robert A. Heinlein


"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."  - Charles Mackay


"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John Lennon
 "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." -- Buddha

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -  Eleanor Roosevelt

"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world." -- Bernard Baruch    
"We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved." - - -- Harry Chapin  

"Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something, everyone must play a part, everyone got to go to work, Work for Peace."
- Gil Scott-Heron  - http://is.gd/fpR7Xm

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes." -  Jawaharlal Nehru

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one." -  John Lennon

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."  -  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago:  

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X (U.S. civil rights activist, 1925-1965)

"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."   Mother Teresa

We are a growing group of concerned citizens who refuse to accept the propaganda that is pumped out each day by our government and presented to us as news by a compliant mainstream media.

Sometime we need real courage to face the days news and it often breaks our heart to witness acts of war disguised as humanitarian actions.  However, we remain tireless and persistent in our pursuit of justice for all who inhabit this earth.
 
"We need to take our country back from the avaricious corporatocracy that feeds on the War Economy. The War Machine has our leadership , our Media and our very lives in its pocket. Everywhere health care, education, and fundamental human rights have suffered . We, as Americans and as members of the human race , must place Peace as our primary raison d'etre and begin the movement into an Age where violence is no more." -  Barton Boyce

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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"This is my country, that is your country, these are the conceptions of narrow souls, to the liberal minded the whole world is a family"  -  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too" -  Oscar Hammerstein

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson


  "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." - Aristotle


"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.

  "I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. " -  Kahlil Gibran


"Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers."  -  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov


"None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself." -  Anonymous, The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English


None Of Us Are Free - If One Of Us Is Chained

And there are people still in darkness,
And they just can't see the light.
If you don't say it's wrong then that says it right.
We got try to feel for each other, let our brother's know that we care.
Got to get the message, send it out loud and clear.
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You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to  the Sharon Tate murders." -  Jesse Ventura

"Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers." - C.S. Lewis

"No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights." - Muqtada al Sadr
"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." -  Virginia Woolf

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first." -  Jim Morrison

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."  Robert A. Heinlein

"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the

people there is liberty."  -  Thomas Jefferson

If you seek to understand the world of human activity, look first to the self-interests of those involved. As true for the whole as it is for the parts, you will by so doing come to understand the actions of nations as well as the behavior of individual men and women; and when you do discover what the underlying self-interests are, you will discover, too, the actual nature of the self then being served.
- Darryl Robert Schoon

"The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race." - Gough Whitlam

"You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest." - Robert Brault

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." - John Steinbeck

Ilan Pappe earlier said Israel's project involves constructing, then defending "a Western/'white' fortress in the Arab/'dark' world."

In the Bible, Satan is described as being ‘the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty’. But then these traits lead to pride, arrogance and the idea that he should rule by whatever means available. Sounds like the path taken by every government I’m aware of.

Just this week, a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration need not respond to the New York Times and the ACLU's mere request to disclose the government's legal rationale for why the President believes he can target US citizens for assassination without due process. Even while recognizing how perverse her own ruling was - "The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me" and it imposes "a veritable Catch-22" - the federal judge nonetheless explained that federal courts have constructed such a protective shield around the US government in the name of terrorism that it amounts to an unfettered license to violate even the most basic rights: "I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret" (emphasis added).
Cicero, two thousand years ago, warned that "In times of war, the law falls silent" (Inter arma enim silent leges). John Jay, in Federalist No. 4, warned that as a result of that truth, "nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it . . . for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans."

"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero." - Ramman Kenoun

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde

"I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own." - Phillip Caputo

"The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word." Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

WAR IS HELL
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. Some of these young men think that war is all glory but let me say war is all hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman.
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"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks." Frederick The Great
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"War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had." Anonymous
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"War would end if the dead could return." Stanley Baldwin
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"There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland." - George W. Bush(1946- ) 43rd US President: Source: In a speech on August 7, 2002
"Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him." - M.A.S.H. - Colonel Potter

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more aboutkilling that we know about living." - Omar Bradley

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." - John F. Kennedy
Antisocial behaviors: are disruptive acts characterized by covert and overt hostility and intentional aggression toward others.
an·ti·so·cial per·son·al·i·ty dis·or·der
condition of emotional and social indifference: a psychological condition in which the affected person appears indifferent to social norms or to the feelings of others
Antisocial personality disorder: A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others and inability or unwillingness to conform to what are considered to be the norms of society.
Antisocial personality disorder, also known as psychopathic personality or sociopathic personality often brings a person into conflict with society as a consequence of a pattern of behavior that is amoral and unethical

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell

"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN." - B.W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy." - Aldous Huxley -

"Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it." - Lysan
Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517

Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12

Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah

Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18

Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23

Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.: T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien

Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

"Further generations will find nothing "ethical" about twentieth and twenty-first century "Judeo-Christian" ethics; they will find the morality in this system equivalent to that of Christianity in the Dark Ages, ever dark indeed!" -Gary Amirault
biocentrism: i am better than no one but less than none
If you seek to understand the world of human activity, look first to the self-interests of those involved. As true for the whole as it is for the parts, you will by so doing come to understand the actions of nations as well as the behavior of individual men and women; and when you do discover what the underlying self-interests are, you will discover, too, the actual nature of the self then being served.
- Darryl Robert Schoon

"The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race." - Gough Whitlam

"You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest." - Robert Brault

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." - John Steinbeck
"The working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace."

"It is the minorities who have made the history of this world. It is the few who have had the courage to take their places at the front; who have been true enough to themselves to speak the truth that was in them; who have dared oppose the established order of things; who have espoused the cause of the suffering, struggling poor; who have upheld without regard to personal consequences the cause of freedom and righteousness."

"You need to know that you belong to the great majority of mankind. You need to know that as long as you are ignorant, as long as you are indifferent, as long as you are apathetic, unorganized and content, you will remain exactly where you are. You will be exploited; you will be degraded, and you will have to beg for a job. You will get just enough for your slavish toil to keep you in working order, and you will be looked down upon with scorn and contempt by the very parasites that live and luxuriate out of your sweat and unpaid labor." - Eugene Debs - Speech given at Canton, Ohio June 16, 1918
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." -- James Monroe (1758-1831), 5th US President Source: First Inaugural Address, 1817


"A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement, or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions; in all these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty: and though it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it." -- John Stuart Mill, Representative Government, 1861


" Whenever a people... entrust the defense of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens." -- A Framer - Anonymous 'framer' of the US Constitution Source: Independent Gazetteer, January 29, 1791

"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong  for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. ":U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole": Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression

"A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of "success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

"He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid." -- Epictetus (ca 55-135 A.D.) Greek philosopher Source: Discourses, ca 100 A.D.


"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." -- John Stuart Mill - (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist Source: On Liberty, 1859


"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes, British
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes, British
'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X
You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to  the Sharon Tate murders." -  Jesse Ventura

"Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers." - C.S. Lewis

"No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights." - Muqtada al Sadr
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that-whether from fear, careerism, or conviction-uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function." - Glenn Greenwald

"The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic." - Jeannette Rankin

"Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think." - Gil Courtemanche

"The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook." - George Seldes
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook." - George Seldes
  "Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it." - Lysander Spooner -  1808 -1887


"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power." -  Henry A. Wallace - The 33rd Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce.  1988 - 1965


"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell


"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated." -  Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well


"The American people are free to do exactly what they are told." -  Ward Churchill
Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As black poet Carl Wendell Hines wrote:
Now that he is safely dead let us praise him
build monuments to his glory
sing hosannas to his name.
Dead men make such convenient heroes:
They cannot rise to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides, it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.
“We have power, a power that cannot be found in bullets and guns, but we have power. It is a power as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth and as modern as the techniques of Mahatma Gandhi. … The Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence is one of the most potent weapons available.”
“Evil may so shape events that Caesar may occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but one day that same Christ will rise up and split history into AD and BC so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by His name … God is more fundamental than sin or evil. Good Friday must give way to Easter Sunday.”
“I have traveled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. I have looked at her beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlay of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over again I have found myself asking: ‘What kind of people worship here? Who is their God?’”
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”
“In recent months several people have said to me: ‘Since violence is the new cry, isn’t there a danger you will lose touch with the people and be out of step with the times if you don’t change your views on nonviolence?’ My answer is always the same. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.
“I have decided I am going to do battle for my philosophy. You ought to believe something in life, believe that thing so fervently that you will stand up with it until the end of your days. I can’t believe that God wants us to hate. I am tired of violence. What kind of nation is it that applauds nonviolence whenever Negroes face white people in the streets of the United States but applauds violence and burning and death when these same Negroes are sent to the fields of Vietnam?”
“A time comes when silence is betrayal … but the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
“We must pursue peaceful ends by peaceful means. Many people cry, ‘Peace, Peace’ but they refuse to do the things that make for peace. … The stage of history is replete with the chants and choruses of the conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace.”
“We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will; we will still love you. We cannot in conscience obey your unjust laws. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good.”
“We must pursue peaceful ends by peaceful means. I’m committed to nonviolence absolutely, I am just not going to kill anybody, whether it’s in Vietnam or here at home. … If nonviolent protest fails this summer, I will continue to preach and teach it. … I plan to stand by nonviolence (because) only a refusal to hate or kill can put an end to the chain of violence in the world and lead toward community where people live together without fear.”
“Violence and nonviolence agree that suffering can be a very powerful social force. But there is a difference. Violence says suffering can be a powerful social force by inflicting it on somebody else, so this is what we do in war. … The nonviolent say that suffering becomes a powerful social force when you willingly accept the violence on yourself, so that self-suffering stands at the center of the nonviolent movement. …
“There is no easy way to create a world where people can live together … but if such a world is created … it will be accomplished by persons who have the language to put an end to suffering by willingly suffering themselves rather than inflicting suffering on others. … Unearned suffering is redemptive.”
“Those who adhere to or follow the philosophy of nonviolence must follow a consistent principle of non-injury. They must consistently refuse to inflict injury upon another.”
“Humanity is waiting for something other than blind imitation of the past. … If we want truly to advance a step further, if we want to turn over a new leaf and really set a new man afoot, we must begin to turn humanity away from the long and desolate night of violence. May it not be that the new person that the world needs is the nonviolent person. … A dark, desperate, sin-sick world waits for this new kind of person, this new kind of power.”
“I am in eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism … and committed to nonviolence absolutely.”
“What is the summum bonum of life? I think I have discovered the highest good. It is love. This principle stands at the center of the cosmos. As John says, ‘God is love.’ He who loves is a participant in the being of God. He who hates does not know God.”
“There is no graded scale of essential worth (among people); there is no divine right of another. Every human being has etched in his or her personality the indelible stamp of the Creator. Every person must be respected because God loves him or her. The worth of an individual does not lie in the measure of his intellect, his racial origin or his social position. Human worth lies in relatedness to God. An individual has value because he or she has value to God.”
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.”
“If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.”
“War is not the answer. We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace and justice throughout the developing world – a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality and strength without sight.”
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter – but beautiful – struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons (and daughters) of God, and our brothers (and sisters) wait eagerly for our response.”
I nearly murdered somebody, and it made me realise that you can't face violence with violence. It doesn't work. ”
—Joe Strummer[11]
For what is a man, a mother, a war hoe or a society mired in xenophobia, narcissism, mammonism and yet preaches christianity when it murders human beings and giggles in the slaughter calling it ‘bugsplat’? michael hall
"There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons." - Tony Benn

"Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them." - Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison

"Empire breeds terrorism." - Pat Buchanan

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you be@o drone or not to drone
is that now the question for any with conscience
or is it merely our place to be obedient, complicit and wave that polluted flag?
But what flag could fly over and above the innocent it kills?
What people could be so exceptional and above the law to ignore the law?
What kind of leader could accept a peace prize, quote a minister of nonviolence and not have his tongue fall out or a lightening bolt strike him from above?
For what is a man, a mother, a war hoe or a society mired in xenophobia, narcissism, mammonism and yet preaches Christianity when it murders human beings and giggles in the slaughter calling it ‘bugsplat’gin to understand me?" -
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons." - Tony Benn

"Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them." - Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison

"Empire breeds terrorism." - Pat Buchanan

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" - George Orwell, 1984
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service." - Albert Einstein

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.' - John F. Kennedy

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." - Thomas Jefferson

"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?" - Jose Saramago
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself —
And there isn't one.
— Ask The Awaken
Wei-wu-wei, "the action of nonaction,
Hurrah, I awake from yesterday
Alive, but the war is here to stay
So my love, Catherina and me,
decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to reborn,
away from lands so battered and torn
Forever, forever

Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess
Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick tube shaped things,
Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
as our feet find the sand,
and the sea is straight ahead, straight up ahead

Well it's too bad that our friends, can't be with us today
Well it's too bad
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/1983-a-merman-i-should-turn-to-be-lyrics-jimi-hendrix.html ]
The machine, that we built,
would never save us', that's what they say
(That's why they ain't coming with us today)
And they also said it's impossible for a man to live and breathe under
water, forever,
was their main complaint
And they also threw this in my face, they said:
Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God,
and the grace of the King (grace of the King)
(Yeah, yeah)

So my darling and I make love in the sand,
to salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style(oooh)...


Read more: JIMI HENDRIX - 1983 ... (A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE) LYRICS
"If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing." - Peter Ustinov

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " - Michael Crichton

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell

"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" - Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law." - Jimmy Carter

"You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive" - Helen Thomas
The greater the wisdom, the greater the grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow
Atheism is like turning on the light in the morning. It hurts at first, but it makes everything so much cle"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire

"What is morally wrong can never be politically right." - Lord Shaftesbury

"People who go uninvited, to a country other than their own, shooting, detonating bombs and killing civilians... We call them 'Terrorists' when they come here. We call them 'Heroes' when we send them ." - Evette Carter

"The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - (121 AD -180 AD) Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD

"There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious." - Brian Jacques, Mossflower
From the Declaration of Independence. Not only do you have the right to overthrow your government, it is a responsibility placed on us by a founding fathers. If our government betrays us, acts other then in accordance to our wishes or we feel changes need to be made it is our obligation to do so.

Selected quotes by Jefferson about 'rebellion':
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
"We think experience has proved it safer for the mass of individuals composing the society to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named and removable for unfaithful conduct by themselves immediately." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours
"As commander in chief of the imperial forces you are responsible fore murdering every one of these kids on this list i just sent you.  How does this conflict with the 6th commandment? The Constitution? Your oath of office?
If MLK was alive today, and if he wasn't violent he would not shake your hand but instead kick yo ass...
Do you even know why? The people, and the rest of the world including cornell west need to ratchet this up more than 30 notches.!! And we will...To save one child form your serial killing drones is worth any price...
The murder of children by drones is not unamerican?
List of Children Killed by US (Drone Strikes) in Yemen and Pakistan" my letter to the white house

“America’s state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape.” – William Blum

“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.” -Ward Churchill

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
- Sinclair Lewis
Many U.S.citizens have avoided knowing that U.S. citizens, including minors, have been targeted and killed, that women and children are on the list of those to be killed, that hundreds of civilian deaths have been documented by serious journalists including victims' names and identities, that U.S. peace activists went to Pakistan and met with victims' families, that the U.S. ambassador in Pakistan said there was a U.S. government count of how many civilians had been killed but he wouldn't say what it was, that the vast majority of those killed are not important leaders in any organization, that people are targeted and killed without knowing their name, that people are targeted and killed merely for the act of trying to rescue victims of previous strikes, that the wounded outnumber the dead, that the traumatized outnumber the wounded, that the refugees who have fled the drone strikes are over a million, that the drone wars did not replace ground wars but began war making in new nations so destabilized now by the drone strikes that ground wars may develop, that some top U.S. military officials have said the drones are creating more new enemies than they kill, or that what drones are doing to our reputation abroad makes Abu Ghraib look like the fun and games our media pundits said it was.
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons." - Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." - Adrienne Rich

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

"There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty." - Bart D. Ehrman, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer

"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately." - Bertrand Russell

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider." - Francis Bacon, English essayist - "Of Studies," 1625
In response to the pope resigning; If a person is caught molesting a child they are jailed and ostracized forever.. Many of them cant work, but live  under bridges as homeless vagabonds...But if your a catholic priest you not only get forgiven, but a brand-new clean slate, maybe even a raise as pack up your bag of dirty deeds and get sent to the next church to practice your black magic while those above you sweep the crime under a rug, dust off their dirty hands, wash their bloody hands clean in holy water and at worst they complain to high heaven if they have to pay off a family that dared complain about their child being molested.  The catholic church is was and will the most corrupt 'religion' on this planet and that is why Benedict is resigning because he was a Benedict Arnold to his faith, to his probity, to his God and he knows it to the core of his soul...Most nefarious...
List of Children Killed by US (Drone Strikes) in Yemen and Pakistan
[The following list was issued by Drones Watch on 20 January 2013. The names were compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.]
By Jadaliyya Reports
PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender

Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
Rahatullah |17 | male
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
Shahjehan | 15 | male
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
Numair | 14 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
Shabir | 15 | male
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
Shafiullah | 16 | male
Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male
Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN

Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
Nasser Salim | 19
To all who have assisted in the past. Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated. Peace and Joy. Tom

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"It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self." -Bell Hooks

"If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance." - William Hughes

"History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth." - Howard Zinn

"Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.  -  They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them." - George Carlin

"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught." - Bryant McGill

"Doubt everything. Find your own light.' - Last words of Gotama Buddha, in Theravada tradition
Last month, the Atlantic's Robert Wright announced that he would cease regularly writing for that magazine in order to finish his book on Buddhism. When doing so, he wrote an extraordinarily (though typically) great essay containing all sorts of thought-provoking observations. Yesterday, the blogger Digby flagged the key passage relating to the issue I'm raising today; please read this:


"[1] The world's biggest single problem is the failure of people or groups to look at things from the point of view of other people or groups - i.e. to put themselves in the shoes of 'the other'. I'm not talking about empathy in the sense of literally sharing people's emotions - feeling their pain, etc. I'm just talking about the ability to comprehend and appreciate the perspective of the other. So, for Americans, that might mean grasping that if you lived in a country occupied by American troops, or visited by American drone strikes, you might not share the assumption of many Americans that these deployments of force are well-intentioned and for the greater good. You might even get bitterly resentful. You might even start hating America.

"[2] Grass-roots hatred is a much greater threat to the United States - and to nations in general, and hence to world peace and stability - than it used to be. The reasons are in large part technological, and there are two main manifestations: (1) technology has made it easier for grass-roots hatred to morph into the organized deployment (by non-state actors) of massively lethal force; (2) technology has eroded authoritarian power, rendering governments more responsive to popular will, hence making their policies more reflective of grass roots sentiment in their countries. The upshot of these two factors is that public sentiment toward America abroad matters much more (to America's national security) than it did a few decades ago.

"[3] If the United States doesn't use its inevitably fading dominance to build a world in which the rule of law is respected, and in which global norms are strong, the United States (and the world) will suffer for it. So when, for example, we do things to other nations that we ourselves have defined as acts of war (like cybersabotage), that is not, in the long run, making us or our allies safer. The same goes for when we invade countries, or bomb them, in clear violation of international law. And at some point we have to get serious about building a truly comprehensive nuclear nonproliferation regime - one that we expect our friends, not just our enemies, to be members-in-good-standing of."
 "We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few." -- James Madison

"You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth." Richard Grossman

"In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. - There ARE no jobs on a dead planet." Judy Bonds

"Mr. Speaker, we make war with such certainty, yet we are befuddled how to create peace. This paradox requires reflection if we are to survive. Making and endorsing war requires a secret love of death, and a fearful desire to embrace annihilation. Creating peace requires compassion, putting ourselves in the other person's place, and all of their suffering and all of their hopes and to act from our heart's capacity to love, not fear." Dennis Kucinich

"Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint." It's time for us to start dreaming again and invite the country to dream with us. We don't have any "throw away" species, nations, or children. We must birth a global green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty." Van Jones
 "We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few." -- James Madison
- Article 2, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."  - Albert Einstein

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." - George McGovern

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason." - Ernest Hemmingway
'If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds' - Bill Moyers

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen - William E. Borah

"The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defence correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons." - E. P. Thompson, British historian

"The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America's addiction to war and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending for jobs?" - Bruce Gagnon
Prior to casting the only “no” vote, Congresswoman Barbara Lee spoke on the House floor. “As we act,” she said, “let us not become the evil that we deplore.”
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves-or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control.

If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn." -
Sophie Scholl - 1921 - 1943 - German student, a member of the White Rose society, a non-violent anti Nazi resistance group.
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by “our” side. George Orwell
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson, French Philosopher and Educator.

"Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong
desire to know it." - William Haley, British Editor

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
The love of one's country is a splendid thing.  But why should love stop at the border?  ~Pablo Casals


Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance.  It is also owed to justice and to humanity.  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.  ~James Bryce


It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.  ~Sallust


Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!  ~Albert Einstein


Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
~Rudyard Kipling


To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.  ~George Santayana


It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.  ~J. Horace McFarland


[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.  ~Adlai Stevenson


The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.  ~William Shenstone


If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.  ~Author Unknown


Love your country.  Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.  ~Giuseppe Mazzini


My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.  ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889


He loves his country best who strives to make it best.  ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.  ~Bertrand Russell


Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.  ~Seneca


Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots.  What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?  ~Adlai Stevenson


Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.  ~S.I. Hayakawa


A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover.  Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.  ~Thucydides


Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.  ~George Jean Nathan


Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.  ~Mark Twain




Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.  ~George Bernard Shaw


A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.  ~William R. Inge


He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Nationalism is an infantile disease.  It is the measles of mankind.  ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934


To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.  ~Buddha


I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.  ~Rosika Schwimmer


You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.  ~George Bernard Shaw


It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.  ~Arthur C. Clarke


Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.  ~Calvin Coolidge


What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?  ~Lin Yutang


Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude.  It is not climatic.  ~E.A. Storrs


A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.  ~George William Curtis


If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.  ~Montesquieu


I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.  ~Socrates


The stench of the trail of Ego in our History.  It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.  ~George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career


I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet.  [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.  ~Ronald Reagan, 1985


Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink across the map turn red.
~Marya Mannes, Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times, 1959


The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.  ~Earl Warren


Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.  ~Richard Aldington


We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with


Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.  ~Oscar Wilde


I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.  ~Eugene V. Debs


Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind.  We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands.  The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race.  Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.  ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838


If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  ~Hamilton Fish


Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.  ~Guy de Maupassant



Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?  ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves


It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.  ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.  The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.  ~Baha'u'llah
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TECUMSEH, Shawnee:


Famous Shawnee Native American leader, warrior, statesman.

Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee
1768-1813


Following speech by The Great Shawnee Warrior and Statesman, Chief Tecumseh, as included in the following magazine article by Simon Pokagon, Pokagon Band of Pottawatomie Nation:
Published, 1899, (Tecumseh's speech spoken c.1800) "Harpers New Monthly Magazine"
Vol. XCVIII, No. DLXXXVI, March 1899, pp. 649-656

THE MASSACRE OF FORT DEARBORN AT CHICAGO

By Simon Pokagon
Chief of the Pokagon Band of Pottawatomie Nation

He (Tecumseh) generally spoke as follows:

"Before me stand the rightful owners of kwaw–notchi–we au–kee (this beautiful land).

"The Great Spirit in His wisdom gave it to you and your children to defend, and placed you here.

"But ä–te–wä (alas!) the incoming race, like a huge serpent, is coiling closer and closer about you.

"And not content with hemming you in on every side, they have built at She–gog–ong (Chicago), in the very center of our country, a military fort, garrisoned with soldiers, ready and equipped for battle.

"As sure as waw–kwen–og (the heavens) are above you they are determined to destroy you and your children and occupy this goodly land themselves.

"Then they will destroy these forests, whose branches wave in the winds above the graves your fathers, chanting their praises.

"If you doubt it, come, go with me eastward or southward a few days' journey along your ancient mi–kan–og (trails), and I will show you a land you once occupied made desolate.

"There the forests of untold years have been hewn down and cast into the fire!

"There be–sheck–kee and waw–mawsh–ka–she (the buffalo and deer) pe–nay–shen and ke–gon (the fowl and fish), are all gone.

"There the woodland birds, whose sweet songs once pleased your ears, have forsaken the land, never to return.

"And waw–bi–gon–ag (the wild flowers), which your maidens once loved to wear, have all withered and died.

"You must bear in mind these strangers are not as you — they are devoid of natural affection, loving gold or gain better than one another, or ki–tchi–tchag (their own souls).

"Some of them follow on your track as quietly as maw–in–gawn (the wolf) pursues the deer, to shoot you down, as you hunt and kill mé–she–bé–zhe (the panther)."

"But a few years since I saw with my own eyes a young white man near the O-hi-o River who was held by our people as a prisoner of war. He won the hearts of his captors with his apparent friendship and good-will, while murder was in his heart.

"They trusted him as they trusted one another. But he most treacherously betrayed their confidence, and secretly killed not less than nech-to-naw (twenty) before his crimes were detected, and then he had fled...".
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