Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

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

- Jane Meyerding

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Steve Biko

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.

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

- Septima Poinsette Clark

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy