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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
— Michael Parenti
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We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,…
— Chris Hedges
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that…
— Howard Zinn
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In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten…
— John Prendergast
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