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There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
- Chinese Proverb
The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.
- Kenneth Boulding
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.
- Jane Meyerding
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- Milan Kundera
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
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
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.