zztopdog: SPEAK UP!

7.20.2008

SPEAK UP!

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." ~ Martin Niemoeller, German Protestant Clergyman

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Peace, War, & Political Quotes

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Dr. Martin Luther King
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. - Albert Camus
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. - Gregory Nunn
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. - Hunter S. Thompson
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 laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business. - Bella Abzug
I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington.... I'm asking you to believe in yours. ~ Barack Obama
If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.' - John F. Kennedy
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. - Edward Kennedy
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Earnest Hemmingway
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Peace is more then just the absence of war. People everywhere seek an inner peace that comes from the human rights to voice their views, choose their leaders, feed their families and raise healthy children. - Jimmy Carter
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times. - Winston Churchill
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. - Edward Kennedy
The short memory of voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace. - Kofi Annan
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. - Abraham Lincoln
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
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? - Gandhi
When you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help. - Barack Obama, August 11, 2006
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. - Noam Chomsky