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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

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

- Kenneth Boulding

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

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.

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

- Kenneth Boulding