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

- Moshe Dayan

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

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

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

- Nelson Mandela

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain