Famous Quotes of the day

“Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

“A fact of My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and no doubt countless other atrocities is that when the cause is rotten, the rot filters down to everyone involved in it. The cause for which my generation was sent to Viet Nam was a false one, later admitted by those who orchestrated it. Those of us who did our duty in Viet Nam enabled our country to poison the land and water of that poor country with an especially virulent form of dioxin, Agent Orange. We would need hundreds of Memorial Walls to contain the names of the Vietnamese killed in that foolish war.”

“Enliven imagination, stand for truth, feel responsibility.”

“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.The giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. We need a true revolution of values to unseat the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. A nation that continues year after year to pour money into war and ignoring social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

“People were frustrated watching helicopters fly overhead without stopping to pick anyone up, and sometimes people felt threatened rather than comforted by police patrolling with M-16s.”