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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

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 begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

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

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson