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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work."

Writing Mean War
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism."

War Fighting Hate
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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."

War Passion Independence
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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering."

Country War Jobs
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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world."

Country War Peace
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."

War Peace Unjust
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief."

War Rivers Bridges
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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all."

Mean War Important
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Aeschylus Playwright
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"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."

War Time Revenge
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David James Photographer
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"I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere."

War Rocks Break Up
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Dean Hughes Author
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"War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war."

Heart War Evil
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Debra Wilson Actress, Comedian
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"Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it."

War Stars Film
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God."

War Christian Buddhist
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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."

War Peace Gun
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Douglas Wilder Politician
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"Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America."

War Rights Doors
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Douglass North Economist
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"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."

War School Strong
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