¶ War
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War: Official War and Unofficial War
“Success for all is the only way of overcoming the need to kill, either in the swift death of official war, or in the slow slum death of unofficial war, mistakenly labeled peace-- when the lack of knowledge of how to provide for all includes lethal competition as vast numbers are shunted into poverty and a far more protractedly painful and humiliating slow death. The you will learn in due course that their idealistic compassion and hope to eliminate lethal warfaring cannot be gratified by political action means, for the last resort of politics is always inherently to physical force, be it actively waged with guns or passively provoked by sitdown blockades.”
¶ Citations
- ARTS AND LETTERS GOLD MEDAL SPEECH, p. 16., May '68
