Dealing with Intractable Conflict in the United States

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Dealing with Intractable Conflict in the United States

Máire Dugan and Joan Walker Scott

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