We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

—Howard Zinn, Historian and Author, from The Progressive, November 2001

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”

—Eve Merriam, poet, playwright, director