manifesto

Friday, November 30, 2007
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ARMENIANS OF THE WORLD UNITE
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You have nothing to lose but your dividers.
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A divider who speaks in the name of the nation is a liar.
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There is only one way for a liar to think truth is on his side and that is by lying to himself.
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The best way to deceive people is to tell them they are too smart to be deceived.
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Dogmas, be they religious or ideological, in whose name we are divided are lies.
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If there is a god and if there is life after death, we may know the truth, but until then we are destined to know only a fraction of it; and a fraction of the truth can be more misleading and dangerous than a lie.
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A divider, no matter how wise, honest, and selfless, cannot speak in the name of the nation, only a fraction of it, and more often than not, an extremely tiny fraction.
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A divider who portrays himself as a savior is in reality a gravedigger. His prototype is the revolutionary in the Ottoman Empire.
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Armenians who identify themselves as Armenians and say they are proud of their identity form only a tiny fraction of the nation. The overwhelming majority have been successfully marginalized, alienated, assimilated, silenced, and reduced to the status of non-persons. But they exist as surely as any one of our bosses, bishops, and benefactors. They may even be better human beings if only because they deceive no one by parading as saviors during the day and turning into gravediggers at night.
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Armenians of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your gravediggers.
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