Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Nelson Mandela

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Gersonides

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

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.

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

- Jonathan Kozol