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1 " The foreign policy establishment depends unabashedly on lies. "
― Nick McDonell , The Bodies in Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars
2 " Knowledge is more virtue than power. "
3 " America has always been hypocritical and violent and still is, every time a white cop shoots a black child, every time an airstrike dismembers an Iraq child. But we have progressed, and perhaps even finer ideas can take root and grow around the central hope. There is no reason why advanced nonviolence can’t have its seeds on the wind, now. Why the turning of the cheek need be religious vacuity or naivete, rather than wobbly next step in a world where it is possible to translate languages instantly and yet remain skeptical of techno-utopia. If Americans are willing to accept greater risk in place of killing, others will take note, and follow, just as they have for two centuries of stumbling toward ideal and impossible equality. "
