On the collective level, we
have unwittingly shifted from being a nation of liberators, defenders of
freedom, into becoming a nation of arms dealers and mercenaries, fabricating
our own weapons of mass destruction and arming tyrants with the tools to
oppress their own people. Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than
any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races —
red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge
in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become
mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of
our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we
mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from
them.
- Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman with the Dalai Lama |
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