Quotes

This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned-out star. — Marge Piercy

O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be. — Langston Hughes

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Major General Smedley Butler, US Marines

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. — George Orwell

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on. — Kurt Vonnegut

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. — Bertrand Russell

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. — Hannah Arendt

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein

Idolatry is at the heart of oppression and coercion. Idolatry is at the root both of our oppressing and our being oppressed. Idolatry—wrongly perceiving who is in charge—is the opposite of shalom. — Walter Brueggemann

The question for the singer is not, Do you have a voice? but, Do you have a song? — Don Hustad