Omario Kanji | Beyond Intractability

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

- John Boyes

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

- Moshe Dayan

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell