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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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
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
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 not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
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