| ‘Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future…There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour… for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. These words were uttered back in 1852 by Frederick Douglass.
Lets ask the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki how they feel America should act.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |