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What I am telling you has been told throughout the centuries and the people have not listened. It is up to you now (Sue and Ned) whether or not you listen. It is wrong to curse a flower, and it is wrong to curse any man. And it is wrong not to hold any man in honor and it is wrong to ridicule any man. You honor yourselves. You see within yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality, and you honor it and you treat yourselves in that manner as gods. If you do not do this, then you destroy all that you touch. And you honor each other individual also, because in him is the spark of eternal vitality.
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When every young man refuses to go to war you will have peace. As long as twenty men insist on fighting a war you will not have peace. As long as you fight for gain and greed you will not have peace. As long as one person commits violence for the sake of peace you will have war. Unfortunately, in the condition in which your world finds itself, it is extremely difficult to imagine that all the young men in all of the countries at the same time will refuse to go to war. And so you must work out the violence that violence has wrought.
Not in your physical time, but within the next hundred years, that time may come... (phrase omitted)... but when it comes, and if it comes soon it will come as a miracle. For it will come when every man realizes that killing is wrong, and when every young man in every country refuses to go to war, and when he refuses to curse any man or any flower. You do not defend any idea with violence. With violence you kill an idea.
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