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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi