Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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.

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

- Malcolm X

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Therese of Lisieux

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

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

- Augustine of Hippo

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

- Croesus

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln