Militarism Quotes - Page 2

• Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

  Robin Morgan

  Racism, Perfect, Combination

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Government, Voice, Violence

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Awards, Important

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• We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Inspiration, Breaking Silence

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

  Rosa Parks

  Powerful, Victory, Revolution

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

  "Offensive Remarks Are Part of Free Speech" by Hilary Hirschfeld, www.smudailycampus.com. October 22, 2008.

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, America, Maintaining

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Breaking Silence, Revolution

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

  Lloyd Banks

  Looks, Breaking Silence, Poverty

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• I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Breaking Silence, World, Revolution

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  William Plomer

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

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• I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Adventure, Men, Skills

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

  Martin Luther

  War, Enemy, Breaking Silence

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• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Boies Penrose

  Office, Political, Patriotism

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• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Compassion

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Military, Believe, Community

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

  Bella Abzug

  Years, Challenges, Dollars

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• Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Patriotism, Doe

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

  James F. Byrnes

  Workout, Land, Our Generation

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• Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize it, "to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace — and in time to take an honorable place among the members of the United Nations.

  James F. Byrnes

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "All In One Lifetime".

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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Engagement, Sovereign

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• [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Population, Ends

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