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We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

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

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill