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"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is
degraded. It is a
 doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man
is one, and
 that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to
all the members":
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1844

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"I sat there in agony thinking about all that had led me to this
private hell. My
idealism, my patriotism, my ambition, my plans to be a good
intelligence officer
 to help my country fight the communist scourge - what in the hell had
happened?
 Why did we have to bomb the people we were trying to save? Why were
we napalming
young children? Why did the CIA, my employer for 16 years, report lies
instead of
the truth?

"I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were
contributing
to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the
children. The photographs
of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me." : Ralph
McGehee former
CIA intelligence analyst

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"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of
it. Like
all members of the military profession I never had an original thought
until I left
the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while
I obeyed
the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the
military service."
: General Smedley Butler. USMC (Ret.)

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"Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the
shelters of New
 York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the
buildings collapse
overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when
it is over
for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their
dear ones mangled,
their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only
after that
gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the
people of Indochina..."
: William Shirer author 1973

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To a safer, saner and more caring world.

To Duty.

Daniel J. Lavigne, Founder
International Humanity House
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