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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

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

- John F. Kennedy

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy