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We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Abraham Lincoln

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Leonard Berkowitz

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky