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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.
- John Foster Dulles
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Steve Biko
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.
- Stephen Grellett
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
There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
- Chinese Proverb
Peace is the skillful management of conflict.
- Kenneth Boulding
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.
- Hamilton Mabie
Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.
- Mark Twain
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.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
- Septima Poinsette Clark
The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.