Chris McMorran | Beyond Intractability

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller