"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
-Maya Lin
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"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
-Maya Lin
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"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
-Maya Lin
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"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."
-Maya Lin
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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
-Maya Lin
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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
-Maya Lin
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"Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society."
-Delphine de Girardin
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"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do."
-Ingrid Newkirk
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"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
-William Lyon Mackenzie King
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"We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values."
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"The main thing I believe in is freedom."
-Charles Evers
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