• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours ago

    “Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, or we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.”

    —Nelson Mandela, Gaza (1999)

    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

    —John F. Kennedy, Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress (1962)

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      3 hours ago

      I also like:

      “Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”

      — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.