"I consider it an honor to be going to prison as a result of an act of conscience in response to a moral imperative that impelled and obligated me to speak for the voices silenced by graduates of the School of the Americas... We're doing acts of civil disobedience in the tradition of our democracy."
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Statement in June 2000 as Liteky was sentenced to two consecutive six-month terms in Lompoc Prison, California, and fined $10,000 for trespassing during his protests against the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains U.S. Army officers as Latin American cultural and linguistic specialists. As quoted by Larry Smith, Beyond Glory (2003), p. xviii
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