Bring the War Home Quotes

“Participants in a program of Leaderless Resistance through phantom cell or individual action must know exactly what they are doing, and how to do it. It becomes the responsibility of the individual to acquire the necessary skills and information as to what needs to be done … all members of phantom cells or individuals will need to react to objective events in the same way through usual tactics of resistance. Organs of information distribution such as newspapers, leaflets, computers, etc., which are widely available to all, keep each person informed of events, allowing for a planned response that will take many variations. No one need issue an order to anyone. Those idealist[s] truly committed to the cause of freedom will act when they feel the time is ripe, or will take their cue from others who precede them.… It goes almost without saying that Leaderless Resistance leads to very small or even one man cells of resistance.36 Cell”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“Institutional practice as well as individual prejudice continued to foster inequality. As historians have shown, the draft disproportionately targeted poor black communities, and was also used as a punitive measure to send black race rioters to war in order to quell domestic dissent.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“They often described enemies and allies as indistinguishable”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“War is not neatly contained in the space and time legitimated by the state. It reverberates in other terrains and lasts long past armistice. It comes home in ways bloody and unexpected.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“is precisely the work of the historian to assemble an account based upon the information available, even if it is scattered, incomplete, and sometimes contradictory.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“In most cases, the historian has neither the training nor the access to enter this discussion. However, one can grapple with the record of speech and action to offer an approximation of a historical actor’s motives and actions.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“White power should be recognized as something broader than the Klan, encompassing a wider range of ideologies and operating simultaneously in public and underground. Such an understanding is vital lest we erroneously equate white power with covert violence and thereby ignore its significant inroads into mainstream society, which hardly came under cover of night.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of its paramilitary aftermath. It also reveals something important about war itself. War is not neatly contained in the space and time legitimated by the state. It reverberates in other terrains and lasts long past armistice. It comes home in ways bloody and unexpected.”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

“You are the organization. You alone. You with others. It all begins with you. You are the keystone, the nucleus and intersecting point in the web. You must plan, act and believe that it all now depends upon you. You alone can triumph. You alone can endure and survive.… Five kinsmen can be a highly efficient and effective intelligence team.31”
― Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America