Anger Anger can be constructive, but is more often destructive. This essay examines the interplay between anger and conflict and discusses when and how anger should...
Costs of Intractable Conflict The twentieth century was the deadliest in all of human history. With eight million Jews murdered and one million Rwandans, it was named "the age of genocide...
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
- Malcolm X
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
- Malcolm X
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
- A.J. Muste
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
- Siddhartha Gautama
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
- Walt Kelly
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
- Septima Poinsette Clark
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For 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.