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