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Rank imperialism and warmongering are not american traditions or values. we do not need to dominate the world.
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Rank Imperialism And Warmongering Are Not American

Molly Ivins
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not american traditions or values. we do not need to dominate the world.
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The united states of america is still run by its citizens. the government works for us. rank imperialism and warmongering are not american traditions or values. we do not need to dominate the world. we want and need to work with other nations. we want to find solutions other than killing people. not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.
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We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. the strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.
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I look to islamic ethics to find something that can provide the basis for shared values with other traditions, and ultimately universal values. this ties into the point i made in a book, 'the quest for meaning', that the only way for values to be universal is if they are shared universal values. my main point is, in this quest for value the aim is not to express your distinctness from others, but about being able to contribute to the discussion of universal value.
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The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . to change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. if we look at situations which have arisen in the past in europe and other world areas, i think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.
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The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. this history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. and the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. he loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.
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You see the one thing i've always maintained is that i'm an american indian. i'm not a native american. i'm not politically correct. everyone who's born in the western hemisphere is a native american. we are all native americans. and if you notice, i put american before my ethnicity. i'm not a hyphenated african-american or irish-american or jewish-american or mexican-american.
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