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Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

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

- Siddhartha Gautama

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

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

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi