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" Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement. "

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" The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. "

Wilfred Owen

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Over

Service

" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "

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

" So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier. "

" There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. "

" 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. "

" The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. "

" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Cry

War

Tired

" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "

" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

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

" The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. "

" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Color

Black

" In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. "

" The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. "

Barack Obama

" As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. "

" War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. "

Ludwig von Mises

War

Prosperity

" Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. "

" Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations. "

" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

" In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. "

" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Curse

War

Time

" 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. "

" World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. "

" I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go. "

" All warfare is based on deception. "

" War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Say

War

Chosen

" Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. "

Sun Tzu

Seek

War

" It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "