Waging Peace 30 th Annual Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace, 30 April 2013

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that every has. --Margaret Mead

Eyes Wide Open

Activism The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.

Dr. Gene Sharp

Gen Douglas MacArthur

I hate war as only a soldier can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bradley Manning

“Collateral Murder” Video

War is immoral

War is illegal

War is ineffective

War costs too much

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discretionary Budget

Unified Commands

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. --Marian Wright Edelman

Military Expert/Defense Contractor

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. --John F. Kennedy

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. --Mahatma Gandhi

David Johnson

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. --Helen Keller

Guantanamo

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. --Linus Pauling