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John Bright

The Quaker Conscience

19th century

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Britain goes to war with wrong on one side and wrong on the other, and calls it a defence of civilisation. The Crimean War was a crime wrapped up in a blunder. Every subsequent imperial war has the same structure: manufactured necessity, false pretences, a class that profits and a class that dies. These are not our wars to fight. What war is being sold to you as a necessity?

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