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Group meditation according to Jon Kabat
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
Education can, and should be, dangerous.
In war, good guys always become bad guys.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
War itself is the enemy of the human race.
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
The violence of our time is caused by obedience.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
The future is an infinite succession of presents.
Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.
Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.
We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.
Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.
Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.