Moral Action

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“It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call “the Fifth Freedom,” understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)