Western greed is the seed of all terrorism. (Dean Fraser)

We make ourselves targets by creating hate through greed and exploitation. We never express contrition for the negative outcomes of our acts. We continue the same formula that lead to the exploitation and destruction of millions of Africans, Native Americans, the slaves, and people in Southeast Asia. We are colonization re-marketed as liberation. (Forum Member - EricChicago)

You fight terrorism by creating more justice in the world. (Tommaso Palladini)

The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must. (David James Duncan)

If we are truly interested in eliminating the terror, then perhaps we should begin to look at what we've done, politically and socially, to attract so much venom from so many people around the world. We are a very small percentage of the world's population. (Jim Kirwan) - www.educate-yourself.org/cn/fearisrealenemy25mar04.shtml

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr)

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. (Corazón Cojuangco Aquino, b. 1933)

Injustice anywhere is an affront to justice everywhere. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There is a body of expert opinion which holds that the larger roots of terror do not lie in fundamentalist religion but in the split between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' - wide now and growing wider. This is as true in the United States, where for the past two decades the rich have been getting richer faster and the poorest have seen their standards decline, as it is in the rest of the world. The developed nations seem determined to carry the process further through economic globalization, a euphemism for 'capitalist rule': already corporations can sue states whose laws hinder the free marketing of their products; laws which were put there for the safety of their citizens. At the Asian economic summit in October 2001, the prime minister of Malaysia warned President Bush that the globalization process would drive the poor nations further into poverty. The President rejected the argument, ignoring that it is the relative poverty of two thirds of the world that fuels the terrorists' rage and enlists their recruits.

As television carries messages of Western prosperity to the majority of others who are excluded, the dangers of a spreading terrorism will grow. President Bush has promised a war against terrorism in every nation where it can be found. Osama Bin Laden's organization reportedly has cells in about sixty nations, among which are some, like Sweden, whose laws do not allow arrest or prosecution before crimes are actually committed. How many national sovereignties do we have to cajole or threaten before we can say that terrorism is eliminated? And how can we expect success when our policies are robbing countries of their independence and self-sufficiency, increasing the poverty which is at the root of terror? (Tony Mitton)

If you are happy and feel at peace with your standard of life it is amazing that what the person down the street has, doesn't seem to invoke negative emotions from you. If you are in lack, hungry, or feel out of step with the 'good' then you most likely are very angry with the person(s) 'down the street' that is comfortable.

Surely we do not need to say to you that your country [America] appears to a great deal of the world to be a very wealthy and an uncaring group of souls. You say to me, "How can that be. We have helped many countries. We have given aid to many." Yes, you have and bless you for it. But we also challenge you to look at how your government has used the people of the world for your higher good. We say that as a country, not as a group of souls, or as an individual. We say this to you in love. But if you are the 'person down the street' that has it 'all' and your neighbors are in great pain, then know most likely in your ego based Earth culture, they are angry.

The only thing that can heal their anger is your love. Do you know why? Your love gives them the opportunity to free themselves from their own anger. When they are free of their anger they will create their own 'good'. They will begin to create the life they desire. They cannot do this if they are angry with you. If all their energy is focused toward their anger at you they only create more anger and more pain. They then wish to free themselves of the pain so they inflict it upon others with the hope that will heal them. Of course this does not work. You have been doing this for much too long on your world. (Salem through Diandra) - www.inwardjourney.com

The triumph of justice is the only peace. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. (William Edwart Gladstone)

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. (Norman Cousins)

…while only might can destroy Al-Qaeda, its expanding support base can be eroded only by policies Arabs and Muslims see as just… [even the complete destruction of Al-Qaeda will achieve little] if the underlying conditions that facilitated the group’s emergence and popularity – political oppression and economic marginalization - will persist. (The Financial Times – 14th May 2003) (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

The continued expenditure of more than $300 billion for the military every year has absolutely no effect on the danger of terrorism. If we want real security, we will have to change our posture in the world – to stop being an intervening military power and to stop dominating the economies of other countries… We are terrorizing Afghanistan. The people who live in Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan have to live with the fear of these bombs. Have you lived under bombs? Can you imagine what it’s like when you’re in a very technologically undeveloped country, and these monster machines are coming over with this ferocious noise, causing these terrible explosions? It’s not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. (Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn)

It is the nature of violence that each act builds upon the preceding unthinkable act, making it impossible to keep track… America - violent and destructive, so disrespectful of human life that the only way to stop us is to kill us? Why does anyone think that? Well, the more I found out about US foreign policy, the more I understood. Our history includes an unreasonably long list of attacks on civilians, and other countries’ elected governments… It turns out that our experience as a grieving family was uncommon for Americans, yet all too common for families in other countries. And that most of the time, the US is the perpetrator, not the victim. I stay true to my brother’s memory not by justifying further violence, but by focusing on healing the damage that has been done, and directing us away from further harm. (Kathleen Pequeno, whose brother was killed in an attack on a military base in Germany in 1985)

Our security can only come by using our national wealth not for guns, planes and bombs; but for the health and welfare of our people, and for people suffering in other countries. (Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA)

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. (Ivan Illich, 1926 Austrian-born American Theologian Author)

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong. (James Fenimore Cooper)