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I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
- Jane Addams
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
- Oscar Arias
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
- Confucius
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
- Plato
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb
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.