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World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Mark Twain

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

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

- Lord Chesterfield

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

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

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding