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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

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

- Lord Chesterfield

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

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

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein