Biblio | Beyond Intractability

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

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 first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass

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

- Nelson Mandela

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat