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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.
- Lanza del Vasto
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
- Cesar Chavez
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.
- Joan Baez
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
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
- Albert Einstein
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
- Jane Addams
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
If you want peace, work for justice.
- Pope Paul VI
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
- Dante
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
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.