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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
- Dorothy Day
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
- A.J. Muste
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.
- Gerard Vanderhaar
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.
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
- Max Lucado
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
- Septima Poinsette Clark
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.