Perspective

"If we review history in bird's-eye perspective, it is clear that it is always authoritarian leaders, and the forces that fan the flames of conflict for their own gain, who start wars. And it is always ordinary citizens who pay the price. This is why we need to transcend the confrontations of "our country" versus "theirs," creating a global people's solidarity that confronts and challenges the demonic abuse of authority wherever it occurs."

-Daisaku Ikeda-
Excerpted from "Japan Times" Aug 10, 2006