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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

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

- Joan Baez

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X