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I'm always moved when a writer puts her talent to the service of her moral beliefs:

( Sharon Olds' letter to Laura Bush )

"We seem always ready to pay the price for war. Almost gladly we give our time and our treasures -- our limbs and even our lives -- for war. But we expect to get peace for nothing."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
--Frederick Douglass, African-American slave, and later abolitionist.

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
-- John Lennon

Clueless

I had a quote from Samuel Huntington in an earlier post, until londonkds was kind enough to let me know that Huntington really doesn't represent my beliefs. Thanks and apologies.

I'll check sources after this!