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Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny.

- Charles DeGaulle

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.