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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.
Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm.
I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.
Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.
Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world.
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
While universal suffrage remains an ideal yet to be attained, if you're lucky enough to be able to vote, don't let that privilege go to waste.
Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.
War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.
It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.
The unique problem for transgender women in prison is that our health and welfare are also the responsibility of those charged with overseeing us.
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.
I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.
Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.
I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.
After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.
The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.