Biblio | Beyond Intractability

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

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

- Jane Meyerding

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

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

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Kenneth Boulding

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston