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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.
malcolm (malcolm little) x— p. 8 (Speech in Detroit, Michigan (April 12, 1964))
In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.
harry s. truman— 1955 On the10th anniversary of the United Nations, 24 Jun.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
thomas edward ("t. e.") lawrence— Letter to Bruce Rogers (20 August 1931)
I hear there's rumors on the internets [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.
george w. bush— 2nd Presidential Debate, October 8, 2004 [65]
I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft. [Crowd Cheers]
george w. bush— Bush speaking at the Daytona International Speedway with his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, October 16, 2004 [67]
In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters [reading "A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do] remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying "A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do..." or if "A Woman's Gotta Do..." were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
warren farrell— p. 28. (Part 1: The Myth of Male Power)
Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or ‘death professions.’
warren farrell— p. 105. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
We are at a unique moment in history -- when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his -- the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.
warren g. harding— Speech during Warren Harding's 1920 presidental campaign, critizing Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies; quoted in Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999) by Mark Penceny, p. 2. (The Assistant Secretary of the Navy he refers to is Franklin Roosevelt, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1920.)
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles - Book 1 (2006), p. 393 (character of Raistlin Majere)
"There is no place for concern that it would change the structure and operation of the EU in a radical way. 90% of the constitution agreement is already in the current agreements. The innovations in the draft will clarify the structure of the EU and make its activity more efficient, as well as strengthen citizens’ rights."
— Egils Levits (Latvian ECJ Judge), Quoted in “Latvijas avize”, 21 June 2004
The story of draft resistance in Columbia County is one of the most complex tales of such activity in Pennsylvania, primarily because of the lacunae of primary sources and the nature of the surviving primary sources.
— Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak (authors of The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance)
Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First draft. True enough. So are we all.
warren farrell— p. 310. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
Paula Hagan (2004) Guide to the (Evolving) Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge . draft 6 February 2004.
— James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler and M. E Stevens (2004) A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture. p. 35
"You'll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?"
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 16 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
