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“Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.”

“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.”

World Self Political Imagination Saws Growing Military Information Amount Economics Complexes Rate Censorship Publishing Collecting Military Industrial Complex Self Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”

Men Two War Saws Military Becoming Conflict Argument Warm Instance Shooting Rude Disputes Convincing

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse”

Ends Saws Military Solutions

Author:Sting

“Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.”

Ifs Problem Culture Can Do Race Leader Saws Military Changed Huge Models Shame Cycles Severe Paradigm Detrimental Paradigm Shift

Author:Amy Ziering

“We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.”

Want Needs Church Saws Military Messages Catholic Focused Priests Commanders Catholic Church Bishops Analogies No One Cares

Author:Amy Ziering

“But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.”

“I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.”

Ifs War Saws Military Possibility Nuclear Warfare Nuclear War

Author:Stefan Heym

“Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.”

“I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.”

War Struggle Saws Military Patriotism Protest Vietnam Vietnam War Military Service Good Patriotic

Author:John F. Kerry