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

- Rwandan Proverb

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez

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

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

- Jonathan Kozol

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

- Mark Twain

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

- Heda Bejar