Saturday, December 27, 2003
Some of the most effective forms of nonviolent resistance in the twentieth
century were undertaken, mostly without advance preparation and co-ordination,
against the Germans in World War II — a fact consistently overlooked by those
who reply to the examples of Gandhi and King by saying that they could not have
done it against the Nazis
Margot B 10:07 AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." -John Adams
Margot B 3:43 PM
Monday, December 22, 2003
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910)
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"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? 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. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty." Gandhi
Margot B 3:47 PM
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