"He couldn’t stop an unnecessary war & the horrific suffering it unleashed – something he felt as a personal failure – yet his intervention undoubtedly changed our understanding of its aftermath. Above all, it removed the excuse that the false pretext for regime change was the result of a simple intelligence failure."

#IraqWMDs #iraqwar #warcrimes #moralcourage

https://youtu.be/T9CqiiI2Irg
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/robin-cook-stop-iraq-war-speech

“Mr. Carter remains the most misunderstood president of the last century. A Southern liberal, he knew racism was the nation’s original sin.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/opinion/kai-bird-jimmy-carter-life.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#MoralCourage

“Biden’s surprise 23-hour visit to Ukraine on Monday was the first time in modern history that a U.S. leader visited a warzone outside the aegis of the U.S. military — a feat the White House said carried some risk even though Moscow was given a heads-up.”

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-kyiv-politics-74c9de636c489393c86ad115e5cbcb48c

#MoralCourage

Doing good when everything is going your way requires you to be a good person. Doing good when things are at their worst requires moral courage.

#MoralCourage #DoingGood #Principles

Thank you, Cassidy Hutchinson.

#MoralCourage

"When you're forced to stand alone, you realize what you have in you."

Uma Thurman
#Quotes #MoralCourage #EmotionalIntelligence

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence #Identity #MoralCourage

"When you're forced to stand alone, you realize what you have in you."

Uma Thurman
#EmotionalIntelligence #MoralCourage

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

#MarkTwain

#Courage #MoralCourage #EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes