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Warriors Parting Dark Mists 2 - Warriors of Hope - Never Silent · Warriors’ Guide to The Rainbow Ground

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: On the first day of the U.S.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: attack on Iran, an RTX Raytheon Tomahawk guided missile was guided by the U.S.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Navy into a girls' school in Minab.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Forty minutes later, a second missile, a double tap, was guided into the same school, murdering rescuers, parents, and the remaining girls.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: On that day, the U.S.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Navy, under illegal orders from a demented would-be dictator, murdered one hundred and sixty-five innocent little girls.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Does this horror upset you sufficiently to speak out?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Or will you use a cop-out or excuse to remain silent?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: Cop-outs, I've learned, block our freedom to act for others, doing the right thing.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: For decades, I begged for food and other help for desperately poor kids in Mexico.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: One cop-out I often heard from those who refused to help was that they only help their own kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I list 53 other cop-outs in my book Touching the Rainbow Ground.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: The book tells a story of my work with thousands of American volunteers who didn't use cop-outs.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Together, we helped tens of thousands of children.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: One belief I've embraced all my life is that I'm a member of the human family.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: So every man, woman, and child is my own kind.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now if you're one of the planet's six point five billion people who say they embrace religion, your faith calls you to believe we all are God's children.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: We all are our own kind.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Sadly, if we connect this own kind cop out with the National Defense cop out, we completely dismiss the ideas of a human family or all of us being God's children and violently negate the ideas of a human family or all of us being God's children.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: I ask you, beg you to put aside all your cop-outs and act.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Speak out for our children, for our human family, for our own kind of