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The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

- William Ralph Inge

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Albert Einstein

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Abraham Lincoln