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I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
- Susan B. Anthony
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
- Therese of Lisieux
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots
- Sancho Panza
Peace is the skillful management of conflict.
- Kenneth Boulding
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.
- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
- Therese of Lisieux
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.