Biblio | Beyond Intractability

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

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

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

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

- Jane Meyerding

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

- Anonymous

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

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