The War
"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh
to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and
Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass
production of human corpses." -Edward Abbey
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our
problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of
the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been
killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war,
and cruelty" : Howard Zinn
"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it
contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their
children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly and
wickedness of the government may engage itself?
"Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first
time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and
destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any
Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to
surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the
purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it?
"A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the
most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into
the heads of men." : Daniel Webster, Speech in the House of Representatives,
January 14, 1814
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