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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels

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

- Norman Cousins

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

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