Graveyard Quote by Alexander Cockburn

“They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.”

Alexander Cockburn

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

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