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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

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Heinz Pagels

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

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

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel