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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
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
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
- Martin Luther
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
- Colleen C. Barrett
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.
- Leonard Berkowitz
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
- Cesar Chavez
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
- Helder Camara
People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.
- Theodore Roszak
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.