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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:26 PM
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Inside the glove of peace was the clenched fist of war
"I saw an orderly buildup of evil, an accumulation of inhumanities, each of which alone is sufficient to make men hide in shame. What was woeful, but true, was that my country was only talking peace but was bent on military victory. Inside the glove of peace was the clenched fist of war. I now stood naked with shame and guilt, as indeed every German should have when his government was using its military power to overwhelm other nations. Whether right or wrong, I had for too long allowed myself to be a silent onlooker. At best, I was a loud speaker but a quiet actor, while a charade was being performed."

- the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
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