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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
- Cesar Chavez
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
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
- Anonymous
The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.
- Kenneth Boulding
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
- George Washington
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Steve Biko
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.
- Hamilton Mabie
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
- Walt Kelly
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
- Heinz Pagels
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.