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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.
- James Douglass
Compromise does not mean cowardice.
- John F. Kennedy
People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.
- Theodore Roszak
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
It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.
- Thomas Jefferson
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
- W.H. Beveridge
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
- Heda Bejar
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
- Mikhail Naim
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.