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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela