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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Anonymous
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.
- Lanza del Vasto
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison
The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
- Barbara Deming
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
- Albert Einstein
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
- William Blake
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
- Barbara Deming
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
- Jack DuVall
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- Francis of Assisi
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
