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A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
- Elise Boulding
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
- Oscar Arias
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr
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
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
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
- W.H. Beveridge
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.
- Cesar Chavez
There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots
- Sancho Panza
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
- Lynn Johnston
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.