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[War Home] [Adama
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Anti-War Propaganda
| Let there be no mistake, I am against the Iraq war! |
Abraham Lincoln
| Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so,
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose --
and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to
say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from
invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no
probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be
silent; I see it, if you don't.'" |
Hermann Goering
| Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the
leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same in every country. |
Dwight Eisenhower
| 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. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at
all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on
a cross of iron. |
Eleanor Roosevelt
| We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live
together we have to talk. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
| 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. |
Taylor (from Planet of the Apes)
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That's about all. Tell me though, does Man, that marvel of
the universe, that glorious paradox who has sent me to the stars
still make war against his brother... keep his neighbor's children
starving?
(Listen to it
here!)
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Gandhi
| What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the
homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? |
Plato
| Only the dead have seen the end of war. |
Mark Twain
| Excerpt from The War Prayer: O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth
to battle- be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from
the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God,
help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us
to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their
wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a
hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows
with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little
children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags
and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy
winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for
the refuge of the grave and denied it-for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord,
blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage,
make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white
snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of
love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge
and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and
contrite hearts. Amen. |
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