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Title: Taking a Stand


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Taking a Stand
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  • The New York Times had a headline on September
    23, 2001, that read Forget the past Its a war
    unlike any other.
  • - Howard Zinn
  • From Terrorism and War, Chapter 3, A Peaceful
    Nation?

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  • "Every nation now has a decision to make. Either
    you are with us or you are with the terrorists."
  • - President George W. Bush

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  • No, we are not with you, and we are not
    terrorists."
  • - Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme
    religious leader on his country's refusal to
    support the U.S., from Time, October 8, 2001

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  • We must be aware of the superiority of our
    civilization, a system that has guaranteed
    well-being, respect for human rights and, in 
    contrast with Islamic countries, respect for
    religious and political rights..."
  • - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, on
    his hopes that the West will conquer' Islamic
    civilization.

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  • Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt,
    severe, inflexible it is therefore an emanation
    of virtue it is not so much a special principle
    as it is a consequence of the general principle
    of democracy applied to our country's most urgent
    needs.
  • - Maximilien Robespierre

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  • War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
  •   - Howard Zinn
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