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Quote by Adrienne Rich
The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with

The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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In every war zone that Ive been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. – John le Carre

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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I dont want to make money that way. I dont want blood money. – Ted Turner

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I tell people I wont vote to go to war unless Im ready to go or send my kids. – Rand Paul

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Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. – Andrew Jackson

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. – George Washington

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The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. – Author Unknown

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. – Rudyard Kipling

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