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Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

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.

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

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

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- 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