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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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