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2007-12-10 "Acts of resistance are moral acts. They begin because people of conscience can no longer tolerate abuse and despotism. They are carried out not because they are effective but because they are right...Resistance is about affirming life in a world awash in death."
-- Chris Hedges, in his article, "Why We Resist", TruthDig.com
2001 Killing innocent people is not a ‘war on terrorism’; it is terrorism.
-- Noam Chomsky, September 11 (Allen & Unwin, 2001) 76.
1996 What makes statesmen, like drivers of cars, successful is that they do not think in general terms—that is, they do not ask themselves in what respect a given situation is like or unlike other situations in the long course of human history…Their merit is that they grasp the unique combination of characteristics that constitute this par¬ticular situation—this and no other…that communicate to them the specific contours and texture of a particular political or social situation….To integrate in this sense is to see data…as elements of a single pattern, with their implications, to see them as symptoms of past and future possibilities, to see them pragmatically…Above all this is an acute sense of what fits with what, what springs from what, what leads to what…It is a sense for what is qualitative rather than quantitative, for what is specific rather than general; it is a species of direct acquaintance…It is a capacity, in the first place, for synthesis.
-- Sir Isaiah Berlin (Berlin 1996, 45-47)
1985 Relatively powerless groups typically respond to much more powerful dominant groups via “forms of struggle [which] stop well short of collective defiance …make use of implicit understandings and informal networks…that require little coordination and planning”
-- James C. Scott, in his book 'Weapons of the Weak – Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance' (1985)
1967 "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood. This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war and through their misguided passions urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
1955 "In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them"
-- Bertrand Russell, from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto
1950 "Woe unto him who has no enemy, for at the Last Judgment I shall be his enemy."
- Carl Schmitt, Ex Captivitate Salus (1950)
1946 "I have no doubt, that unless big nations shed their desire of exploitation and the spirit of violence of which war is the natural expression and the atom bomb the inevitable consequence, there is no hope for peace in the world."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi
1943-11-21 "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
-- Winston Churchill
1939 "Countless people... will hate the new world order... and will die protesting against it... When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents..."
-- H.G. Wells, The New World Order (1939

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