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Charity without resistance is oppression. - Harold Moss, Olive Branch Community
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Woe to those who add house to house, And
join field to field, Until everywhere belongs to them – Isaiah
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I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No. Suffering draws
you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me. – provided by Rana, Pakistan
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From Ethics and Public Service, UDC:
Every gun that is made, 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 labourers,
the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech April 16, 1953,
Washington, D.C., to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
In the councils of government, we must
guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an
alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of he huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and
goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. – President Eisenhower, Farewell address to the nation,
January 17, 1961
It is not what we have that will make
us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Our government has kept us in a
perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor
– with the cry of grave national emergency…Always there has been some terrible
evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind…our government…by
furnishing the exorbitant sums it demanded. Yet in retrospect, these disasters
seem never to have happened – seem never to have been quite real. – General Douglas McArthur, 1957
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Real disarmament cannot come unless the nations of the world cease
to exploit one another!
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"In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money,
property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and
oppresses people." - Ernst Friedrich, War Against
War (1924)
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Not to act is immoral. – Jihaad
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Seperateness is killing us. - Mitch Snyder
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Seven blunders of the world that
lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship
without sacrifice, politics without principle.
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What is faith worth if it is not
translated into action.
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What I have done will endure,
not what I have said or written.
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My Life is my message.
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We must be what we seek the
world to become.
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It is beneath human dignity to
lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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The only devils in this world
are those running around our own hearts, and that is were our battles should be
fought.
– Gandhi
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Wisdom is difficult to impart
verbally; it must be demonstrated.
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Individual liberty and independence
are both essential for life in society.
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A mind once stretched by a new
idea never regains its original dimensions.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
change the world...indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
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Why haven’t you learned anything?
Man that school .. is a joke
The same people who control the school system, control the prison
system,
and the whole social system.
Ever since slavery, nawsayin’ ? - (They Schools - Dead Prez)
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“The war on drugs” especially on
marihuana - is an arbitrary excuse to lock up undesirables. - Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green
Party
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the
dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was
vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act
their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. - T. E. Lawrence from "The Seven
Pillars of Wisdom"
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The more unjust a government, the more complicated are its laws. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus, c. Ad 117
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Poverty is something money can’t buy.
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Tu ne peux pas avoir la buerre et l’argent pour la buerre et la
sourire de la cremiere.
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Der Mangel an Naechstenliebe hat seinen Grund darin, dass man zuviel
fern und zu wenig nah sieht. - Hellmut Walters
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Wer nicht mit dem zufrieden ist, was er hat, waere auch nicht mit
dem zufrieden, was er haben moechte.
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Ein Leben in der Vergangenbeit oder in der Zukunft macht eine Gegenwart
unmoeglich.
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"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an
optical delusion of our consciousness." - Albert
Einstein
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"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." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to
butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?" - Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
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The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who
adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that
knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. - Walter Gilbert
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is
useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is. - Chinese Proverb
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office. - Aesop,
Greek fabulist
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He who allows oppression, shares the crime. - Erasmus Darwin, British physician, scientist, reformer, and
poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin [The Botanic Garden] (1731-1802)
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living
things, man will not himself find peace - Albert
Schweitzer, French philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952)
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who
can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren
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Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather
by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
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If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires
you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making
a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of
saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious,
social, and even political. -
Ignazio Silone, author (1900-1978)
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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today,
flesh and blood tomorrow. -
Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)
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The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments
of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate
power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting
corporate power against democracy. - Alex Carey
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Instructions for life in the millennium from the Dalai Lama:
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Take into account that great
love and great achievements involve great risk.
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When you lose, don’t lose the
lesson.
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Follow the three R’s: Respect
for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
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Remember that not getting what
you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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Learn the rules so you know how
to break them properly.
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Don’t let a little dispute
injure a great friendship.
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When you realize you’ve made a
mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
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Spend some time alone every day.
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Open your arms to change, but
don’t let go of your values.
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Remember that silence is sometimes
the best answer.
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Live a good, honorable life.
Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second
time.
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A loving atmosphere in your home
is the foundation for your life.
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In disagreements with loved
ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
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Share your knowledge. It’s a way
to achieve immortality.
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Be gentle with the earth.
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Once a year, go someplace you’ve
never been before.
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Remember that the best relationship
is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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Judge your success by what you
had to give up in order to get it.
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You needed pleasure,
I gave you pain.
You were so tired,
You didn’t complain.
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence
multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending
spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil- hate begetting hate, wars
producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark
abyss of annihilation." - Martin
Luther King Jr.