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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

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

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

- Nelson Mandela

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle