Biblio | Beyond Intractability

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Malcolm X

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

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

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

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