[Peace-discuss] These need constant repeating

[Morton K. Brussel]

The following statements buttress the fine statements yesterday on  
the quad made by Carl Estabrook and Robert Naiman, among others.

This is taken from the 'Information Clearing House Blog'

Message:
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their  
fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that  
they started it. ": U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S.  
representative to the International Conference on Military Trials,  
Aug. 12, 1945

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To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an  
international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing  
only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the  
accumulated evil of the whole: Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars  
of aggression

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"A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely  
believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with  
an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not  
produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of  
"success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the  
chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will  
produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the  
cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power  
Elite by C. Wright Mills

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"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the  
censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage  
is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.  
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to  
change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a  
person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others,  
or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of  
hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of  
energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down  
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

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