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Rosalind P. Petchesky

  • All of the horror of the twentieth century should surely teach us that war feeds on itself and that armed violence reflects, not an extension of politics by other means, but the failure of politics; not the defense of civilization, but the breakdown of civilization.

    • Rosalind P. Petchesky,
    • "Phantom Towers," in Ms. ()

Rosalind P. Petchesky, U.S. political scientist, educator, reproductive rights advocate

(1942)