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

- Siddhartha Gautama

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

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

- Bertrand Russell

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

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