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"I begin each day by reading a poem or two. It's a very Benedictine practice. "Listen with the ear of your heart," is the first line of the Rule of Saint Benedict. "Listen" is what every poem whispers. Listen to people whose voices speak of loss, of love, of joy, of dreams deferred, and find in them an echo of me and you. Find in them the one human heart."
--Mary Lou Kownack, "Poetry and Peace" Find... one human heart" We are all poets of a singular poem. "Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?" --Barbara Lee, the only Congressperson to vote against giving President Bush legal authority to take violent action against Afghanistan. From the article "Barbara Lee and Jeanette Rankin: Voices of Conscience" "When people at the ends of the earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime, it is something that has justification. Millions of children in Iraq is something that has justification." -Osama bin Laden, the Sunday the bombing of Afghanistan began, from "Bin Laden's Hiroshima" Let's stop giving terrorists and would-be terrorists justification for their actions. Let's send the message that violence is so wrong that even we will not use it. "We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart." --Albert Einstein What that means is the things we sacrifice so unreluctantly for violent methods of warfare, we need to transfer into sacrifices for peaceful means of achieving peaceful ends. You're willing to give up liberties for war, but you won't give those same sacrifices for the true nonviolent struggle that is needed. If you're still not convinced that it's either "nonviolence or annihilation", talk to me. My e-mail is over there, to your left. "At the level of elementary education, schools often seem concerned about trying to prevent violence on their campuses. Yet the society in which these children grow up in tells them that violence is acceptable. It's everywhere, from television to the President." --An issue posed by Fellowship Magazine to Michael Nagler in the article Conversations with Michael Nagler "..you can go and kill every one of their terrorists and hang bin Laden in front of the White House and you will have not solved the problem and you probably have created hundreds of new terrorists. So you could win tactically, and lose strategically." -- US Colonel Richard Dunn "Convince any large group of people that they and their children can never hope to share in the affluence the see around them--convince them that they have nothing to lose--and you predispose them first to indifference and then open hostility towards the affluence." -- William Raspberry |
