Track One - Track Two Cooperation | Beyond Intractability

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

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

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

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.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

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

- Havelock Ellis

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

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