Quotes from Native American Tribes
from "The Soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears"

I seek Strength, not to be greater
than my brother, but to fight my
greatest enemy-myself.
(unknown)

Every fire is the same size when it starts.
(Seneca)

Man has responsibility, not power.
(Tuscarora)

It is no longer good enough to cry peace,
we must act peace, live peace
and live in peace.
(Shenandoah)

Deeds speak louder than words.
(Assiniboine)

Strive to be a person who is never absent
from an important act.
(Osage)

One has to face fear or forever
run from it.
(Crow)

It is not good for anyone
to be alone.
(Cheyenne)

Kashmir & New Orleans

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson

"I was looking at them and shaking their hands, I noticed some blood spots still on them. And all of a sudden they disappeared from being human. All of a sudden something happened that turned them into non-human things. I was not talking with humans, I literally was talking with evil, personified...It even became a very difficult ethical problem. Do I actually negotiate with the devil to save people? Or do I wipe it out, shoot the bastards right there? I haven't answered that question yet...


...the pain of killing yourself is nothing compared to the pain of living with this, and it's only by flukes and by chances that some of us don't actually do it.

...I was the commander, my mission failed and hundreds of thousands of people died. I can't find any solace in statements like I did my best. … A commander can't use that as a reference in any operation. He succeeds or he fails and then he stands by to be held accountable. My mission failed and that's that.

Excerpts from an interview with General Romeo Dallaire

Interview transcript

Ghosts of Rwanda

A US Army soldier has plead guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.

BBC Article, BBC Video,
CNN Article discribing the incident
The Washington Post

No excuse

Beit Hanoun, Gaza

It never stops

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.