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“The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.”
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“To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.”
― War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
― War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
“Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple.”
― War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
― War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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