Biblio | Beyond Intractability

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

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

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark