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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

- Francis of Assisi

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

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

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

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

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela