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" Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war. "

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" I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. "

Bayard Rustin

Rise

Progress

I Am

" When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane. "

" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "

" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Differences

" The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war. "

" During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True. "

" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "

" Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance. "

" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Out

Poor

Wars

" Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans. "

" I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. "

" Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. "

" Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. "

" Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. "

" Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. "

" You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. "

" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "

" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "

" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. "

" In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.' "

" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. "

" It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. "

" Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying. "

" This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. "

" Bill Clinton wanted to survive. And Bill Clinton wanted to thrive, not just for himself, although that's primarily what drives Bill Clinton. He's a classic narcissist. So of course he wanted to thrive and succeed. But he also wanted America to thrive and succeed, which is why he worked with a Republican Congress. "

Monica Crowley

America

Succeed

" We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. "

" My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well. "

" If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. "

" We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands. "

Monica Crowley

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Direct