{"quotes":[{"text":"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["conscience","conscience and attitude","conscience and ethics","conscience","conscience reasoning","conscientious-objection","mindfulness-practice","parliament"],"id":142741,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.","author":"John Rawls","tags":["conscientious objection","justice","pacificism","war"],"id":269214,"author_id":"John+Rawls"},{"text":"There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.","author":"Cornel West","tags":["african-american-history","african-american-men","african-americans","black-history-month","black-leadership","black-liberation-movement","black-middle-class","black-prophets","black-revolutionaries","careerists","conscientious-objection","freedom-fighters","industrial-prison-complex","leadership","malcolm-x","martyrs","mass-incarceration","political-advocacy","political-philosophy","political-prisoners","prison-reform","racial-discrimination","racism","warriors"],"id":346879,"author_id":"Cornel+West"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}