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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had
better get out of the way and let them have it. -- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one
of these days governments had better get out of
the way and let them have it."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
In the councils
of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. --
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The
arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
-- Scilla Elworthy
“Those
who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but
one step more to think one vote will do no harm.” ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Children
organizing for political rights will probably be treated initially with ridicule
and derision, and then with misunderstanding and perhaps eventually violence if
the experience of the struggle for women's suffrage is any precedent. Undoubtedly
the greatest obstacle to be overcome is the adult refusal to acknowledge that
children suffer political discrimination and exclusion. Adults do not perceive
children as a minority group but as helpless, inexperienced, defenseless young
people who need protection. Adult paternalism seeks to protect and if in this
process it curtails freedom, truncates potential and destroys civil liberties
this is taken to be incidental. The belief in the legitimacy of paternalism justifies
and cements the existing power relationships between adults and young people.
This attitude must be confronted, challenged and refuted if young people are to
secure their political rights..." -- Bob Franklin "The Rights of Children"
Every time that religion
has identified itself or entangled itself with a particular political movement
or a particular government, religion has been harmed by that. I see religion as
a powerful positive healing force for this nation and the world. But that force
is blunted, weakened, compromised inestimably, if we turn religion into a tool
for advancing political strategy; if we make it a matter of how to win political
office; if we treat it as anything other than a sacred part of life from which
we ought to draw sustenance and values and strength for living courageously as
good citizens. -- C.
Welton Gaddy
Promoting active liberty
does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls
for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in
society and the political process. -- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
The best government
is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Universal
Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it
not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but
it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.
-- Dag
Hammarskjöld, Second UN Secretary-General, 1953-1961
Genuine politics --
even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself
to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and
serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is
a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. -- Vaclav
Havel
"America
is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders
ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process." -- Arianna
Huffington