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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

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

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

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez