Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

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

- Gersonides

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

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.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez