Roy Bourgeois Quotes
They can send us to prison, but they cannot silence us. The truth cannot be silenced.
In November of each year protesters gather at Fort Benning, the site of the U. S. Army School of the Americas. The School provides training for Latin American Military Officers in Counter-Insurgency Training. The graduates of the school have included some of the worst Latin American killers and torturers (See {41061} for example) who rose to positions of power in their lands. It has also included many leaders who did not ever resort to war crimes and atrocities and also became leaders of their countries. It has been an institution of great controversy since it was discovered that the school at one point taught methods of interrogating insurgents that were tantamount to torture. Defenders of the school claim that but for the school, the military atrocities would have been worse and that it contributed to more human and democratic governments in the Americas. The annual protest has attracted more than 16,000 protesters, some of whom—like Bourgeois—have been guilty of trespass and interfering with a government facility and have served jail terms for those violations.
Roy Bourgeois, Catholic Priest & Founder, School of the Americas Watch, Protest meeting at Fort Benning, November 2005
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She had been jailed for “inciting to riot.” As she was released from prison thousands of well wishers greeted her.
This paraphrased quote originated with Martin Luther King, Jr. See related quote.
Johnson rued that the Governor and other authorities of Alabama could not block or harass the Civil rights protesters.
The speech was an attempt to justify the Dirty War and the kidnappings, tortures, and killing of many citizens.
Roy Bourgeois is an American activist, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). He is the 1994 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the 2011 recipient of the American Peace Award and also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
