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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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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
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
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.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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)
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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
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
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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
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
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
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
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
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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.
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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.
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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