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No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

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

- Steve Biko

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

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

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz

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

- Carl Sandburg

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

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

- Joan Baez

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne