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I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

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Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

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They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

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But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

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