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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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
- Frank Kent
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
- Susan B. Anthony
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson
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
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.
- Kenneth Boulding
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides
There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.
- George Mitchell
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.