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

- John F. Kennedy

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

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

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

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

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Siddhartha Gautama