Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

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

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder