[Peace] a quote

[blue2 at net66.com]

Someone posted this to a bb I'm on.  The last paragraph is 
particularly relevant ... and chilling.  The quote is supposed to 
appear in Gustave Gilbert's Nuremberg Diary (1945), but I haven't 
confirmed it.
Meg

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor 
slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can 
get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? 

Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor 
in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. 
But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the 
policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, 
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a 
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. 

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding 
of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are 
being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of 
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same 
in any country."

Hermann Goering 


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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate 
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"O we are all racist  we are all sexist  some of us only some of us 
are the targets of sexism of homophobia of class denigration but we all  
all breathe in racism with the dust in the streets  with the words we read 
and we struggle those of us who struggle  we struggle endlessly endlessly 
to think and be and act differently from all that"
-- unattributed; Isis International Bulletin, no. 21 (1981)