QUOTES OF THE WEEK: Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a mans skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war. - - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. Yes, become who you are. Theres no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Leonard Peletier The first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth - Michael Parenti It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level? - Mark Twain The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963 I count myself as a spiritual sister to those the US government has murdered, and I am angry at my powerlessness. - Karen Kwiatkowski The search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Americas entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who dont like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call Americas legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe? : Michael Ignatieff, New York Times, Jul. 28, 2002 I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism. - Paul Robeson Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor. -- Ginetta Sagan Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . . -- Nelson Mandela I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. -- Thomas Paine We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. As Arnold Toynbee says : Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word. Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. - Rev. Martin Luther King - Beyond Vietnam -A Time to Break Silence The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader. He who dares not offend cannot be honest - Thomas Paine 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 . . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them. Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery. If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity: Daniel Webster A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle - James Keller
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