Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Augustine of Hippo

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Septima Poinsette Clark

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

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

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

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

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

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

- Therese of Lisieux

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X