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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

- George Washington

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

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

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

- Carl Sandburg

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield