2003 Gandhi Peace Award

[ChiefHappyButt]

God, I love Kucinich.

http://www.kucinich.us/speeches/speech20.php

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The light of peace can be brought into this world and exist in this world through compassion, acceptance, tolerance that's shared. And it’s shared through affirming international structures of cooperation and governance. The importance of a United Nations is so much more evident at this moment. We realize that we're all connected, that we’re all one! My politics arises from an holistic world view: we’re interconnected, we're interdependent. What affects me affects you. It goes beyond the I-thou of Martin Buber and goes to the connectivity of "we are all one" that informed Gandhi's essential philosophy. Because when you wage war under those circumstances, it is not an act merely of homicide—it is an act of suicide. Because we're attacking ourselves. Because our brothers and sisters in Iraq are receiving the bombs. The world vision of peace can be affirmed through going back to the work that so many of us have pursued over a lifetime for nuclear disarmament. David Cortright and others have made it a life's work to implement the nonproliferation treaty. The United States can once again take a leading role in the world, in working not only for nuclear nonproliferation, but in taking a leading role in getting rid of all nuclear weapons. We have an obligation to do that. We have an obligation to future generations to do that. We have an obligation to reimplement the antiballistic missile treaty which Vladimir Putin himself took office ready to support. We have an obligation to recommit to a test ban. To begin to build down and eliminate the production of nuclear weapons. We’re going in an opposite direction at this very moment, but we can once again gain that moral authority in the world. The weapons of mass destruction begin in our consciousness. And they're our projections in physical form. The splitting of the atom was a split in consciousness in this society.


Guess who is first on my list?

[goodhue]

1. kick for peace thru nonviolence n/t

[Zomby Woof]

2. ZombyKick

[no name no slogan]

3. another kick for peace (nt)

[foo_bar]

4. 'Gandhi'

http://www.animation-books.com/act4anim.htm
http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes.php?type=3&name=mahatma%20ghandi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_common_misspellings
http://www.linuxjournal.com/comments.php?op=Reply&pid=5886&sid=6616
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/rcampbell.txt

Abstract: 57 English undergraduate students studying in London consistently
misspelled "Gandhi" as "Ghandi" despite intensive exposure to the correct
spelling of the name. This is seen as an exemplary misspelling in a number
of ways, and these are outlined in the paper. It is shown that statistical
similarity to English predicts the misspelling but that statistical
similarity to English cannot override "rule-making" pressures in spelling
pseudo-Indian names, for "Ghandi" spellers also spelled the pseudo-name
"Ghalgi," while "Gandhi" spellers did not, and this spelling is not
predicted by statistical similarity alone. It is concluded that even with
minuscule lexical knowledge of "Indian" words and names, English readers
use "rules" in such tasks. This suggests that once a correct spelling has
been achieved it will be maintained, for new rules (presumably) replace
old ones. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Copyright 1985 American
Psychological Assn, all rights reserved).

[Blue_State_Elitist]

5. Big Kick for DK

K I C K

[LWolf]

6. Dennis practices Gandhi's message.

He is the change he wishes to see.

If only America would join him, what changes we might see then!

[goodhue]

7. Yes

We must join him one by one. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

[XanaDUer]

8. Kick!

:kick: