Compromise | Beyond Intractability

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

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

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

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

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