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Be the change you wish for the world. -Gandhi
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We are a group of people living and working in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania who oppose war on Iraq. We believe that the only way to peace in the world is through peace. We have decided to break the silence around opposing war and to sponsor and support community events to educate ourselves and our friends and neighbors about why war in Iraq is completely unacceptable.
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"All of us have heard this term 'preventative war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time....I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing." - President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953, upon being presented with plans to wage preventative war to disarm Stalin's Soviet Union.
[quoted in The Nation, March 3, 2003]
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"Not by might, not by power, but through the spirit of justice and compassion shall our world be transformed." Zechariah 4:6
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"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.....I still believe that we shall overcome." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Our position is that whatever grievance a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions."
- Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson,the American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials,in his opening statement to the tribunal.
[quoted in The Nation, March 3, 2003]
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