"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't
face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." "Truth is on the side of the oppressed." "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom'
out of your vocabulary." "God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."
"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the
ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America
gone mad."
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"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
When leaders act contrary to conscience,
we must act contrary to leaders.
"Action is the antidote to despair." "Nonviolence is the constant awareness
of the dignity and the humanity of oneself and others; it seeks truth
and justice; it renounces violence both in method and in attitude; it
is a courageous acceptance of active love and goodwill as the instrument
with which to overcome evil and transform both oneself and others. It
is the willingness to undergo suffering rather than inflict it. It excludes
retaliation and flight." "That's all nonviolence is - organized
love." "War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." ~~Alexander Berkman "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 Suspicion must always fall on those
who attempt to silence their opponents.
"The soldier's main enemy is not
the opposing soldier, but his own commander." "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast
views beyond the comprehension of the weak..."
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem.
Our problem is civil obedience.
"The US is really beyond reason now.It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany." Legendary playwright Harold Pinter First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me - and by then there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller |
| "When I told myself that I do have a choice,
I have a choice to do what is morally right, what is in my conscience,
and what I can live with for the rest of my life--even though that comes
with consequences, I do have that choice. When I realized that, and when
I chose what was right for me, I became free again. And I think everybody
has to remember that and to realize that is what is important in life."
Ehren Watada |
| From "You're Either With the Resistance - or With the Murderers" By Arthur Silber, Lew Rockwell.com, Friday, February 9, 2007 When the order comes down to treat a prisoner with unspeakable cruelty, to "waterboard" him, to electrocute him, to cut him, to hang him on hooks from the ceiling for days on end, or to commit any number of other unforgivable crimes, there is always the man or woman who will say - without bravado, without show, without explicitly staking any particular moral claim, but as a simple, unadorned statement of fact: "No. I will not do this. You can torture me, or say you will kill me. I cannot and will not do this to another human being. I will not do this. No." It is the person who says, "No," whom we must seek to understand. It is not melodramatic or engaging in overstatement to say that he or she is our salvation. Ehren Watada is one of those rare heroes who has said, "No" - and he is prepared to go to jail for four years for his refusal. |
| "The Earth is not dying - she is being killed. And those
who are killing her have names and addresses." ~~Utah Phillips |
| "There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear;
and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free
speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions,
which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health.
And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast." ~~Henry Ward Beecher Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ~~William Orville Douglas We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people. ~~John Fitzgerald Kenned If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. ~~Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "These
wars that almost all of us are terrified of, have also provided very useful
smoke-screens to allow for the expansion of those powers, that have tightened
the corporate death grip which threatens everyone not enslaved already!
People the world over must come together to stop the wars, remove and
punish the insiders and get back to questioning everything! In 2008 there
must not be any FREE-SPEECH ZONES encased in razor wire and miles from
the platform where supposed candidates come to campaign or debate. This
nation was supposed to offer a public forum in the marketplace of ideas,
especially during elections - and not simply to become a fixed travesty
that supports only the moneyed view. Either we find a way to reclaim our
rights to free and public speech or we can forget about all that high-blown
BS about having anything like a real democracy! This is especially true
during the current false-flag wars for corporate dominion over the resources
of the world. This can only 'be' your world if you are involved in what
happens in it!"
From "Revenue Streams That Feed The Barracudas" |
"George is not to blame. Every President in the Twentieth Century has been a hand puppet of the Rothschild-Rockefeller cartel of cartels. They wouldn't let George manage a gas station let alone the "Free World." Luckily, Bush just reads the teleprompter. Henry Kissinger, CEO of the visible NWO, issues the orders. "Kissinger's orders" link Derision only gives Bush credibility heightening the illusion the US has a functioning democracy, mass media and justice system. Remember, the US government is ultimately responsible for the slaughter of 3000 Americans in broad daylight Sept. 11. The US ruling class and punditry are complicit in the ongoing cover-up. The most obvious "controlled conflict" is the two party system." From "The 'Matrix' Of Manufactured War |
"Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car."Garrison Keiler
"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return."Socrates |
"The Illuminati starts wars to demoralize and destroy humanity, to consolidate power and produce huge profits and debt slavery. This cult, which has a stranglehold on thought and expression, pretty much defines realty. Our best course is to find our truth from different sources and define reality anew."
(Henry Makow)
10/1/06
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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)
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
(JFK)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will
make violent revolution inevitable."
(JFK)
"You can't make war in the middle east without Egypt, and you can't make peace without Syria."
(Robert F. Kennedy)
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
(Gandhi)
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the highest source. I salute the source in you. Let us work together in unity and love."
(Gandhi)
"Peace, in the sense of absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on the prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
(The Dalai Lama)
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
(The Dalai Lama)
"Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
(The Dalai Lama)
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
(Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical enfants. We know more about war then we know about preace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystory of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
(Omar N. Bradley)
"Peace is not the product of terror
or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
(Oscar Romero)
"Either war is obsolete or men are."
(R. Buckminster Fuller)
"He who does not attempt to make peace when small discords arise, is
like the bee's hive which leaks honey, soon, the whole hive collapses."
(Siddha Nagorjirna 100 - 200 a.d.)
"Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
(P.M. Jawaharial Nehru)
"The world can not continue to make war like giants and peace like pygmies."
(P.M. Lester Bowles Pearson)
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -
avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we
should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
"If here is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person, if
there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house, if there
is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation, if there is order
in the nation, there will be peace in the world."
(Chinese Proverb)
"We need peace makers not peace keepers."
(Paul Liu)
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time or effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is the perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
(Og Mondino)
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
(Henry Miller)
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
(John Muir)
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
(Albert Schweitzer)
"In time of tumult and sidcord bad men have the most power, mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness."
(Publius Cornelius Tacitus a.d. 55)
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
(Mother Teresa)
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of
God."
(Matthew 5:6-9)
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor natures gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
(Pres. Jimmy Carter)
"Every kind of peaceful cooperation is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice or police."
(Albert Einstein)
"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."
(Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower)
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably
bring about right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
(James Lane Allan)
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality - not as we expect it to be but as it is - - is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not live very satisfactorily; that there can only be life only where it really is, in just this sense, love."
(Carl Fredrick Buechner)
"Either war is obsolete, or men are."
(R. Buckminster Fuller)
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
(Ramona L. Anderson)
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
(Thomas Jefferson)
"The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't have to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are - - as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy."
(Unknown)
"When the power of love over comes the love of power, the world will know peace."
(Jimi Hendrix)
"Peace has to be created in order to be maintained. It is the product of faith, strength, energy, will, sympathy. justice, imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietness."
(Dorothy Thompson)
"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
(Croesus)
"The peace and welfare of this and coming generations
of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism:
"Our country - when tight to be dept right; when wrong to be put right."
(Carl Schurz)
"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
(Ben Franklin)
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
(Gen. Omar N. Bradley)