Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Anonymous

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

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

The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

- Joan Baez

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

- Anonymous

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar