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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

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

- Nelson Mandela

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

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

- Joan Baez

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X