Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

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

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol