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We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.

— Bernard Lown Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

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The imagined enemy is eventually banished from the human family and reduced to an inanimate object whose annihilation loses all moral dimension.

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The reason, the creativeness, and the courage that human beings possess foster an abiding faith that what humanity creates, humanity can and will control.

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We must hold fast to the dream that reason will prevail.

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